Young Children's Concepts of Shape

1999/03/01 by Douglas H. Clements, Sudha Swaminathan, Mary Anne Zeitler Hannibal +2 · 3 citations
Engineering · Mathematics · Psychology · #Child and Animal Learning Development #Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills #Spatial Cognition and Navigation

paper · doi:10.2307/749610

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Abstract

Douglas H. Clements, Sudha Swaminathan, Mary Anne Zeitler Hannibal, Julie Sarama, Young Children's Concepts of Shape, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Mar., 1999), pp. 192-212

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