Children's mapping between non-symbolic and symbolic numerical magnitudes and its association with timed and untimed tests of mathematics achievement

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Brankaer, Carmen ^a   Ghesquière, Pol ^a   De Smedt, Bert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ACHIEVEMENT TEST; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MAPPING ABILITY; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VARIANCE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84899417235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093565     Document Type: Article

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