Sentences with phrase «sense of numbers»

You can't make sense of the numbers if the higher multiples are giving lower valuations.

Although we focus on certain characters more than others we still get a strong sense of the number of personalities on screen.

Children who have a good sense of numbers also tend to have a talent for arithmetic, even before formal training.

An illustration might help make sense of the numbers if it's been awhile since you broke out your calculator.

He argues that many kids have poor math skills because they are discouraged from developing an intuitive sense of number.

They can even learn to do logic operations with symbols, and they have a relative sense of numbers.

You need to be able to make sense of numbers in order to calculate prices, add up discounts, make change for customers, count inventory, and more.

Try browsing the «who's online» section to get a good sense of numbers and rotation.

In this unit, Exploring Number Games: Making Sense of Numbers with Imi and Zani, students gain a deeper understanding of numbers by focusing on important overarching concepts: multiple representations of numbers; the size and ordering of numbers; place - value concepts focused on tens and ones; patterns with skip counting; and odd and even numbers.

I mean, we've known that practicing your times tables makes for better multiplication, but new research shows that our inborn sense of numbers is linked to our math ability, even before any training in math.

It goes back at least to Kant, who argued that we have an innate sense of number, space and time.

We looked at BookNet Canada's sales numbers for one week in August to get a general sense of numbers and the top 10 non-fiction books sold between 1,300 and 5,500 copies.

Professor Heckman and his co-authors Sneha Elango, Jorge Luis Garcia and Andres Hojman provide clarity in Early Childhood Education, a new working paper that makes sense of a number of seemly conflicting research studies on the effectiveness of public investment in early childhood education.

I was just looking at some updated «State Education Reform» statistics from the National Center of Education Statistics and was trying to make sense of the numbers of charter schools in each state.

These examples show the power of probabilistic thinking to override our intuitive sense of numbers, or what I call «folk numeracy,» in parallel with my previous columns on «folk science» (August 2006) and «folk medicine» (August 2008) and with my book on «folk economics» (The Mind of the Market).

Scientists have discovered that this inborn sense of numbers may influence learning and achievement in the classroom.

They're not the only communications pros under pressure to use more measurement in PR and marketing efforts, and technology companies are responding to data overload with apps to help marketers make sense of the numbers.

«We will take pains every quarter to explain the adjustments you need in order to make sense of our numbers,» he wrote.

The sense of numbering things will be ingrained in your baby's mind — even if when she does start to count, she counts out of order at first.

Research has shown that chickens have some sense of numbers.

The study challenges the prevalent «sense of numbers» theory.

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.

Early math curricula and tools for diagnosing math - specific learning disabilities such as dyscalculia, a brain disorder that makes it hard to make sense of numbers and math concepts, have been based on that consensus.

Other theories suggest that a «sense of magnitude» that enables people to discriminate between different «continuous magnitudes,» such as the density of two groups of apples or total surface area of two pizza trays, is even more basic and automatic than a sense of numbers.

After centuries of trying to make sense of numbers and observations, researchers may finally have discovered the time of year volcanoes are most likely to erupt.

«We selected BDO to start with because it's a product that is relatively sophisticated in the sense of the number of steps to make it starting from oil and gas,» Gann says.

But the sense of number is not confined to primates.

Because we share both laughter and a sense of number with other species, and therefore with common ancestors that existed millions of years ago.

This observation coincides with the theory of neuronal recycling, developed by Stanislas Dehaene, and which stipulates that advanced cultural cognitive processes, such as mathematics, recycle ancient evolutionary brain functions, such as a sense of number, space and time.

I was very interested by Jessica Hamzelou's report of newborn babies having a sense of a number line (26 August,...

We and other creatures may have been born with this ability but how the sense of number emerges is still an open question.»

Trying to make sense of these numbers might seem like a daunting task at first, but with a few clues about what to look for you will be on your way to becoming an «OvaCue expert».

And, he says, that process of trying to make sense of numbers and trends, «that's what science is all about.»

All the investigations in the unit aim to broaden students» understanding of numbers by helping them make sense of numbers.

In general, number sense means that students know how to make sense of numbers, how to use them, and to see relationships among them.

Have you ever wondered if there was a way to help students build a sense of fractions the way they build a sense of number?

For others, like my son, it falls apart at algebra when his text began to completely remove all sense of number from the procedures, and contexts, which should have been increasingly meaningful, were stripped away from the mathematics.

It all comes down to what we think of as number sense - making sense of numbers.

I was doing a research project trying to get a sense of the number of small arms in the country.

This article needs a comment from someone that isn't a high achiever to make sense of these numbers.

Fig. 1 shows the types of weapons that are preferred in PvP, giving a sense of the number of options a player has.

To give you a sense of numbers I think David Zwirner books started four years ago, a year before I joined.

I just can't make sense of the numbers.

Professor Heckman and his co-authors Sneha Elango, Jorge Luis Garcia and Andres Hojman provide clarity in Early Childhood Education, a new working paper that makes sense of a number of seemly...

I'd love to hear from more experienced investors in similar market class (SF flips and small MF buy and hold) about which calculations they use to give me a better idea of how to make sense of the numbers.

Please click the «Attend Event» button if you plan to attend so we can get a sense of numbers and share this event with anyone you feel might benefit from attending.

You have to get a sense of the number of potential investors and level of commitment they can invest.