Sentences with phrase «understanding numerosity»
Children are born understanding numerosity, but they understand it on a logarithmic scale — the difference between five and ten is larger than the difference between 70 and 75.
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Recent research in cognitive and developmental neuroscience is providing a new approach to the understanding of dyscalculia that emphasizes a core deficit in understanding sets and their numerosities, which is fundamental to all aspects of elementary school mathematics.
He calls this «numerosity coding»: the understanding that things have a precise quantity associated with them, and that adding or taking things away alters that quantity.