Enhancing young children's mathematical knowledge through a pre-kindergarten mathematics intervention

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 99-120

  Starkey, Prentice ^a   Klein, Alice ^a   Wakeley, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Intervention; Mathematics; Pre kindergarten

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842709938     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2004.01.002     Document Type: Article

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