Category Archives: Research

Struggling with your concentration?

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See this page from healthline where they give real helpful tips and explanations on how you could work on your focus/concentration.

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Children know math instinctively ?

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A new study published by Frontiers upsets assumptions about what needs to be taught in math class. Most of us think that skills like multiplication and division are learned, but a growing body of evidence suggests that some math skills are inherent. 

The study findings indicate that even division is something children can do before formal education begins. This clearly has implications in how math may be taught in the future.   

The foundation of the research is the approximate number system (ANS), a theory which states that humans and other primates have the ability to approximate large sets of objects without language or other symbolic interpretation. 

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How do we learn?

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Another very useful contribution that EfraFurst makes about how we learn. Three different models are presented. Great site to explore

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About memory

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Memory is such an important part of doing math so we are grateful for the wonderful explanation by EfraFurst about all the ins and outs of our memory and how it all works.

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Working memory and how it developed

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Good research showing where theories about working memory are rooted in research.

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