News tagged with number sense

Neural network learns to identify group sizes without knowledge of numbers

(PhysOrg.com) -- A cognitive sciences research duo out of Università di Padova, in Italy, have succeeded in building an artificial intelligence network that has through repetition, learned to identify relative group ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Math ability is inborn

We accept that some people are born with a talent for music or art or athletics. But what about mathematics? Do some of us just arrive in the world with better math skills than others?

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

Helping children learn to understand numbers: It's all in the way we speak to them

Most people know how to count, but the way we master this ability remains something of a puzzle. Numerals were invented only around four to five thousand years ago, meaning it is unlikely that enough time has elapsed for ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Poor 'gut sense' of numbers contributes to persistent math difficulties

A new study published today in the journal Child Development (e-publication ahead of print) finds that having a poor "gut sense" of numbers can lead to a mathematical learning disability and difficulty in ach ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Pre-verbal number sense common to monkeys, babies, college kids

Basic arithmetic and "number sense" appear to be part of the shared evolutionary past of many primates; it's the use of language to explain abstractions that apparently takes human math to a higher level.

Biology /

created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0