The importance of number sense to mathematics achievement in first and third grades

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 82-88

  Jordan, Nancy C ^a   Glutting, Joseph ^a   Ramineni, Chaitanya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning difficulties; Mathematics; Number sense

Indexed keywords

EID: 75849131424     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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