Developing automaticity in multiplication facts: Integrating strategy instruction with timed practice drills

Learning Disability Quarterly

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 269-289

  Woodward, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

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EID: 33751584607     PISSN: 07319487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30035554     Document Type: Review

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