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Whitacre, Ian; Henning, Bonnie; Atabas, Sebnem – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2017
We review research literature concerning "number sense" from several related fields. Whereas other authors have pointed to difficulty defining "number sense" or to some degree of inconsistency in the literature, we argue instead that this is a case of polysemy: There are 3 different constructs that go by the same name. In this…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Number Systems, Literature Reviews, Educational Research
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Wynn, Karen – Mathematical Cognition, 1995
Presents evidence that human infants possess a mechanism for determining and representing small numbers of entities and procedures for operating on these representations to extract numerical relationships between them. Presents a model for this mechanism and discusses its relation to later numerical knowledge. Contains 42 references. (MKR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Research, Infants, Mathematics Education