Students' spatial structuring of 2D arrays of squares

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 503-532

  Battista, Michael T ^a   Clements, Douglas H ^b   Arnoff, Judy ^a   Battista, Kathryn ^a   Van Auken Borrow, Caroline ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Constructivism; Early childhood, K 4; Geometry; Learning; Measurement; Multiplication; Visualization spatial reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 22444452303     PISSN: 00218251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/749731     Document Type: Article

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