Children's intuitive mathematics: The development of knowledge about nonlinear growth

Child Development

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 296-308

  Ebersbach, Mirjam ^a,b   Wilkening, Friedrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTUITION; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PROBLEM SOLVING; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUITION; JUDGMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 33847379311     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.00998.x     Document Type: Article

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