Mathematical Thinking and Learning

Blackwell Handbook of Early Childhood Development

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 208-229

  Ginsburg, Herbert P ^a   Cannon, Joanna ^b   Eisenband, Janet ^a   Pappas, Sandra ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Binet's task; Enumeration; Measurement; Metacognition; Piagetian number

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889363419     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470757703.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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