Do children learn the integers by induction?

Cognition

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 940-951

  Rips, Lance J ^a   Asmuth, Jennifer ^a   Bloomfield, Amber ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Induction; Integers; Natural number; Number concepts; Number learning; Numerical cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MATHEMATICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 37249011805     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.07.011     Document Type: Note

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