Deaf Children's Understanding of Inverse Relations

Deaf Cognition: Foundations and Outcomes

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Nunes, Terezinha ^a   Bryant, Peter ^a   Burman, Diana ^a   Bell, Daniel ^a   Evans, Deborah ^a   Hallett, Darcy ^a   Montgomery, Laura ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b William Westley Primary School   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Addition; Inversion; Logical reasoning; Mathematical development; Subtraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921259402     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195368673.003.0007     Document Type: Chapter

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