Activities encourage students to transfer the patterns into abstract number facts. (hand2mind.com)
Young boys who will fall asleep during a stats class will pay attention if instead of abstract numbers, you add «goals» «home runs» etc, after the numbers. (money.stackexchange.com)
That means you truly know them; they are not just abstract numbers that enter into your financial statement or statistics. (smallbusinessesdoitbetter.com)