Does counting count for 3- to 4-year-olds? Parental assumptions about preschool children's understanding of counting and cardinality

Social Development

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 496-513

  Fluck, Michael ^a   Linnell, Maggie ^a   Holgate, Melanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Cardinality; Counting; Parents

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844454117     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2005.00313.x     Document Type: Review

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