Feeling number: Grounding number sense in a sense of quantity

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-51

  Wagner, David ^a   Davis, Brent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical mathematics education; Number sense; Number systems; Numerosity; Quantity sense

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952093309     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-009-9226-9     Document Type: Article

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