Children's Mathematical Reasoning in Online Games: Can Data Mining Reveal Strategic Thinking?

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 88-92

  Fisch, Shalom M ^a   Lesh, Richard ^b   Motoki, Elizabeth ^b   Crespo, Sandra ^c   Melfi, Vincent ^c  

^a MediaKidz Research and Consulting   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Computer games; Mathematics; Media; Online; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955761882     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2011.00161.x     Document Type: Article

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