Helping children learn to understand numbers: It's all in the way we speak to them
Monday, August 1, 2011 - 13:30
in Psychology & Sociology
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 specialized parts of the brain for processing numbers to evolve, which suggests that math is largely a cultural invention.