Performance of mentally retarded children on a hierarchically sequenced introductory mathematics curriculumFootnote∗

∗A paper presented by the senior author at the New Zealand Psychological Society Conference (Symposium on Mental Retardation), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. August 1978.

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