Spatial skills as a predictor of first grade girls' use of higher level arithmetic strategies

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 123-130

  Laski, Elida V ^a   Casey, Beth M ^a   Yu, Qingyi ^a   Dulaney, Alana ^a   Heyman, Miriam ^a   Dearing, Eric ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; Elementary school; Gender; Spatial skills; Strategies; Verbal skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871925737     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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