Title: “Number Sense”: What’s in a Name and Why Should We Bother?
Abstract: Cognitive psychologists define "number sense" as the ability to represent number and have used number discrimination tasks and number line tasks to assess it. Here, we review data that demonstrated that a lot of nonnumerical cognitive processes might play a role in these tasks. Therefore, it can be questioned whether these studies really address number sense. However, if we adopt the definition of math educators who consider number sense as a set of abilities underlying more complex mathematical achievement, these studies are still extremely important because the performance on these tasks is a key predictor for mathematical achievement. This is where both disciplines can join forces: math educators might have an interest in these number sense measures because they can be used for optimizing math education. Cognitive psychologist may want to examine which numerical and nonnumerical processes are involved in these tasks, something that may in turn help math educators.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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