Young Children Intuitively Divide Before They Recognize the Division Symbol

Children bring intuitive arithmetic knowledge to the classroom before formal instruction in mathematics begins. For example, children can use their number sense to add, subtract, compare ratios, and even perform scaling operations that increase or decrease a set of dots by a factor of 2 or 4. Howeve...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Emily Szkudlarek, Haobai Zhang, Nicholas K. DeWind, Elizabeth M. Brannon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2022.752190/full