What is it about?
How the brain learns the basics of math
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Why is it important?
Understanding how the brain learns math can help us to teach math better and to improve the diagnosis and amelioration of math learning disabilities
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We suggest that humans and animals are born with the ability to perceive size. Then, in humans, this ability matures to perceive number and more complicated concepts in math
Dr Tali Leibovich
Western University
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This page is a summary of: From “sense of number” to “sense of magnitude”: The role of continuous magnitudes in numerical cognition, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, August 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x16000960.
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