Because it's there! Why some children count, rather than infer numerical relationships

Cognitive Development

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 472-491

  Muldoon, Kevin ^a,b   Lewis, Charlie ^a   Towse, John ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Counting; Numerical equivalence; One to one correspondence; Sharing

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744451810     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2005.05.008     Document Type: Article

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