Development of Quantitative Thinking

The Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Opfer, John E ^a   Siegler, Robert S ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Mathematical thinking; Number representation; Numerical cognition; Symbols

Indexed keywords

EID: 85066660432     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199734689.013.0030     Document Type: Chapter

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