Gesturing gives children new ideas about math

Psychological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 267-272

  Goldin Meadow, Susan ^b   Cook, Susan Wagner ^a,b   Mitchell, Zachary A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ATTITUDE; CHILD; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 62349108992     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02297.x     Document Type: Article

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