"Why are some types of number so hard to understand? What connects our hands to our sense of number? Why does schooling sometimes leave us so muddled and discouraged that we close the door on our mathematical brain? And what can we do to open the door again?" "Brian Butterworth …
The concept of numbers and the ability to process them is innate, part of everyone's intellectual apparatus whether they've had a formal education or not. This book investigates the world of numbers and the development of maths disorders.
"Why are some types of number so hard to understand? What connects our hands to our sense of number? Why does schooling sometimes leave us so muddled and discouraged that we close the door on our mathematical brain? And what can we do to open the door again?" "Brian Butterworth …
The study of mathematical cognition and the ways in which the ideas of space, time and number are encoded in brain circuitry has become a fundamental issue for neuroscience. How such encoding differs across cultures and educational level is of further interest in education and n…
"Andrew Hacker's 2012 New York Times op-ed questioning our current mathematics requirements instantly became one of the the paper's most widely circulated articles. Why, he wondered, do we inflict algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and even calculus on all young Americans, regardl…
"Andrew Hacker's 2012 New York Times op-ed questioning our current mathematics requirements instantly became one of the the paper's most widely circulated articles. Why, he wondered, do we inflict algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and even calculus on all young Americans, regardl…
"Andrew Hacker's 2012 New York Times op-ed questioning our current mathematics requirements instantly became one of the paper's most widely circulated articles. Why, he wondered, do we inflict algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and even calculus on all young Americans, regardless …
