Mathematics problem-solving adventures: A language-arts-based supplementary series for early childhood that focuses on spatial sense

Engaging Young Children in Mathematics: Standards for Early Childhood Mathematics Education

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 377-389

  Casey, Beth ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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