Pathways to arithmetic: The role of visual-spatial and language skills in written arithmetic, arithmetic word problems, and nonsymbolic arithmetic

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue , 2015, Pages 188-197

  Zhang, Xiao ^a   Lin, Dan ^a  

^a THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; Mathematics; Morphological skills; Phonological skills; Visual orthographic skills; Visual spatial skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923131911     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2015.01.005     Document Type: Article

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