What counts : how every brain is hardwired for math / Brian Butterworth.
What counts : how every brain is hardwired for math / Brian Butterworth.
What counts : how every brain is hardwired for math / Brian Butterworth.
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New York : Free Press, c1999.
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T0391628
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English
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Physical content
xv, 416 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. Thinking by Numbers -- 2. Everybody Counts -- 3. Born to Count -- 4. Numbers in the Brain -- 5. Hand, Space, and Brain -- 6. Bigger and Smaller -- 7. Good and Bad at Numbers -- 8. Home, Street, and School Mathematics -- 9. Hard Numbers and Easy Numbers.
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Publisher
New York : Free Press, c1999.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1999.
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Summary
"Butterworth's pioneering research into the behavior and genetics of mathematical ability has led him to discover that we all possess a fundamental number sense, which he calls "numerosity.""--BOOK JACKET. "We all know that some of us are good at math and some of us are not. But, as Butterworth shows, the reason a person falters at math is usually...
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What counts : how every brain is hardwired for math / Brian Butterworth.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-398) and index.
Transferred from N510.19/5.
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c1999.
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T0391628
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74VvEa8awqQd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvEa8awqQd
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ISBN
0684854171
9780684854175
DDC
510.19
MMS ID
991011652339702626
