Linking Thinking

Are Our Brains Wired for Math?

March 8th, 2008

An interesting summary of Stanislas Dehaene’s research in our numbers sense that has implications for how we teach math: The fundamental problem with learning mathematics is that while the number sense may be genetic, exact calculation requires cultural tools—symbols and algorithms—that have been around for only a few thousand years and must therefore be absorbed by areas of the brain that evolved for other purposes.

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