The performance of chinese primary school students on realistic arithmetic word problems

Educational Psychology in Practice

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 145-159

  Xin, Ziqiang ^a   Lin, Chongde ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Yan, Rong ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 67649542919     PISSN: 02667363     EISSN: 14695839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02667360701320853     Document Type: Article

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