Flexible mental calculation

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 29-47

  Threlfall, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Addition; Arithmetic; Calculation; Computation; Learning; Mental; Methods; Primary; Strategy; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 52649130289     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020572803437     Document Type: Article

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