Development of numerical estimation: A review

The Handbook of Mathematical Cognition

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 197-212

  Siegler, Robert S ^a   Booth, Julie L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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