What’s Past Is Prologue: Relations Between Early Mathematics Knowledge and High School Achievement

Educational Researcher

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 352-360

  Watts, Tyler W ^a   Duncan, Greg J ^a   Siegler, Robert S ^b   Davis Kean, Pamela E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

achievement; early childhood; longitudinal studies; mathematics education; student cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908570543     PISSN: 0013189X     EISSN: 1935102X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X14553660     Document Type: Article

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