Training young children on sequential relations among numbers and spatial decomposition: Differential transfer to number line and mental transformation tasks

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 854-866

  Xu, Chang ^a   LeFevre, Jo Anne ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Number line; Number system knowledge; Preschool children; Sequential knowledge; Spatial knowledge

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLOGY, CHILD; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84969949587     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/dev0000124     Document Type: Article

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