Young children's number sense in China and Finland

Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 483-502

  Aunio, Pirjo ^a   Niemivirta, Markku ^a   Hautamäki, Jarkko ^a   Van Luit, Johannes E H ^b   Shi, Jiannong ^c   Zhang, Meiling ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese; Finnish; Number Sense; Pre schoolers

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749251866     PISSN: 00313831     EISSN: 14701170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00313830600953576     Document Type: Article

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