Young children's intuitive understanding of rectangular area measurement

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 144-167

  Outhred, Lynne N ^a   Mitchelmore, Michael C ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children's strategies; Cognitive development; Early childhood, K 4; Manipulatives; Measurement; Multiplication; Representations; Visualization spatial reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 22844454412     PISSN: 00218251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/749749     Document Type: Article

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