Number words in young children's conceptual and procedural knowledge of addition, subtraction and inversion

Cognition

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 675-686

  Canobi, Katherine H ^a   Bethune, Narelle E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Addition; Cognitive development; Inversion; Mathematical concepts and procedures; Number words; Subtraction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHILD; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL MEMORY;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 51249084981     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.05.011     Document Type: Article

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