Mathematical Play and Playful Mathematics: A Guide for Early Education

Play = Learning: How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ginsburg, Herbert P ^a  

^a Teachers College Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Early education; Everyday mathematics; Number; Pattern; Play; Shape

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920423988     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195304381.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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