Mystery boxes: Helping children improve their reasoning

Early Childhood Education Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-18

  Rule, Audrey C ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Inference making; Questioning; Reasoning; Thinking skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547231345     PISSN: 10823301     EISSN: 15731707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10643-007-0156-9     Document Type: Article

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