Early childhood teacher education: The case of geometry

Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 133-148

  Clements, Douglas H ^a   Sarama, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Early childhood; Geometry; Learning trajectories; Scaling up professional development; Spatial reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952816686     PISSN: 13864416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10857-011-9173-0     Document Type: Article

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