Young natural-number arithmeticians

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 193-197

  Gelman, Rochel ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Cognitive development; Early counting; Informal cognition; Preschool arithmetic; Preschool children

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748784047     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2006.00434.x     Document Type: Article

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