The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics, Revised and Updated Edition Revised, Updated Edition, Kindle Edition

by Stanislas Dehaene (Author)

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Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all over the world. Now, in The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers a fascinating look at this recent research, in an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Dehaene begins with the eye-opening discovery that animals--including rats, pigeons, raccoons, and chimpanzees--can perform simple mathematical calculations, and that human infants also have a rudimentary number sense. Dehaene suggests that this rudimentary number sense is as basic to the way the brain understands the world as our perception of color or of objects in space, and, like these other abilities, our number sense is wired into the brain. These are but a few of the wealth of fascinating observations contained here. We also discover, for example, that because Chinese names for numbers are so short, Chinese people can remember up to nine or ten digits at a time--English-speaking people can only remember seven. The book also explores the unique abilities of idiot savants and mathematical geniuses, and we meet people whose minute brain lesions render their mathematical ability useless. This new and completely updated edition includes all of the most recent scientific data on how numbers are encoded by single neurons, and which brain areas activate when we perform calculations. Perhaps most important, The Number Sense reaches many provocative conclusions that will intrigue anyone interested in learning, mathematics, or the mind.

"A delight."
--Ian Stewart, New Scientist

"Read The Number Sense for its rich insights into matters as varying as the cuneiform depiction of numbers, why Jean Piaget's theory of stages in infant learning is wrong, and to discover the brain regions involved in the number sense."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Dehaene weaves the latest technical research into a remarkably lucid and engrossing investigation. Even readers normally indifferent to mathematics will find themselves marveling at the wonder of minds making numbers."
--Booklist

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File Size: 3762 KB
Print Length: 352 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Revised, Updated edition (April 29, 2011)
Publication Date: April 29, 2011
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Language: English
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For introspective learners and exceptional teachers

October 7, 2015

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Really interesting topic and probably covers everything you ever wanted to know about how mathematics fits into the biological mind. A lot of this book is the psychology of learning numerosity, the ways in which different languages and systems of manipulating numbers utilize our natural cognitive processes to facilitate learning and retention. A recurring theme is the way that, as animals, we are not really designed for storing and using large numbers as it does not generally serve as an advantage to be able to differentiate between 9 and 11. This book is great for anyone interested in understanding themselves and others, and especially for those who want to work to ensure that mathematics education meets the needs of the next generation of learners.

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This is a great book for the inquiring mind

March 21, 2015

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The Number Sense is another Delahae book that gives an insight into how the brain works. This time the focus is on one of the most powerful human inventions, mathematics which allows man to understand the universe he is immersed in. The descriptions embodied in the book seem to become almost self evident. I consistently came away with the feeling, "Of course, that's how it works." The reason one gets this feeling is because of the wealth of scientific evidence Delahae uses to support his descriptions. This is a great book for the inquiring mind.

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Math is made harder by the language that you speak!

June 23, 2018

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A great balance between the historical, anthropological, and biological reasons for how life developed the concepts of "math" and how the higher functioning human brain took those concepts and ran with them.

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How the brain acquires mathematics

April 19, 2017

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Must read for any maths teacher

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Susan Louchen, CALT

April 25, 2013

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Comprehensive overview of literature on the topic of how the brain manages mathematical concepts. This updated edition gives a brief but direct explanation of dyscalculia, and some direction for treatment.

This is a gifted author, drawing together vast amounts of research and presenting it in a way the average, interested person can comprehend.

Equally enlightening is Dehaene's READING IN THE BRAIN.

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November 21, 2015

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Very impressive.

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L. Schmidt of Lawrence's Books

The Number Sense

July 21, 2012

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Every teacher should read this book. Young people would enjoy math if more teachers knew how to make it fun. It should be required reading during teacher's training.

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December 5, 2014

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a fascinating, well researched and well written work.

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