Using intuition from everyday life in 'filling' the gap in children's extension of their number concept to include the negative numbers

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 39, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 131-147

  Linchevski, Liora ^a   Williams, Julian ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34547758728     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1003726317920     Document Type: Article

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