Children's additive concepts: Promoting understanding and the role of inhibition

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 101-107

  Robinson, Katherine M ^a   Dubé, Adam K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Addition; Associativity; Conceptual knowledge; Inhibition; Inversion; Subtraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871923259     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2012.07.016     Document Type: Article

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