Understanding and using principles of arithmetic: Operations involving negative numbers

Cognitive Science

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 445-457

  Prather, Richard W ^a   Alibali, Martha W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; Conceptual knowledge; Learning; Problem solving; Psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 41449091567     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03640210701864147     Document Type: Article

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