Culture and children's mathematical thinking

The Nature of Mathematical Thinking

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 119-144

  Saxe, Geoffrey B ^a   Dawson, Venus ^a   Fall, Randy ^a   Howard, Sharon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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