Digital manipulatives: new toys to think with

Authors:
Mitchel Resnick;Fred Martin;Robert Berg;Rick Borovoy;Vanessa Colella;Kwin Kramer;Brian Silverman
Affiliations:
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Boston, MA;MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Boston, MA;MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Boston, MA;MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Boston, MA;MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Boston, MA;MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Boston, MA;MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Boston, MA
Venue:
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
1998

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