Sentences with phrase «innate number sense»

Although some linguists have hypothesized that humans have an innate number sense, Gordon contends that his results cast doubt on this theory.

We're all born with an innate number sense — that seemingly effortless knack to roughly estimate and compare quantities without counting, which we do automatically when choosing the shortest checkout line at the supermarket or ballparking how many apples are in a bowl.

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But not only was the Reaganite touting of America's innate decency and common - sense revealed to be quite naïve by the developments of 2005 - 2013, the Reaganite free - market philosophy was revealed in a number of ways to be deficient.

The most widely accepted theory today suggests people are born with a «sense of numbers,» an innate ability to recognize different quantities, like the number of items in a shopping cart, and that this ability improves with age.

Number sense is generally thought to start as an innate intuitive sense for quantity and magnitude.

In any event, I'm coming up with the same gut sense: there's a pretty massive margin of error on these numbers, and my innate guess at it is «big.»