Links Between the Intuitive Sense of Number and Formal Mathematics Ability

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 74-79

  Feigenson, Lisa ^a   Libertus, Melissa E ^a   Halberda, Justin ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Estimation; Math; Number

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877665702     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12019     Document Type: Article

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