Some cultures are fixated on numbers. Others don’t even have words for numbers. And then there’s Bolivia’s Indigenous Tsimane’ community, which has members who can count indefinitely, and others who ...

PROF. CONANT has produced a book which supplies a gap in scientific literature, and on it he has expended great diligence in collecting the materials, and circumspection in dealing with them. The ...

Neuroscientists discover brain processes which lead to the concept of “zero” on the number line. Zero is a magic number. It stands for emptiness, for nothing -- and yet it is considered one of the ...

Piaget's 3-stage theory of the child's attainment of the concept of number was applied as a number readiness criterion to ninety-six kindergarten children. Two children were found to be at the initial ...

A study was conducted to investigate the effect on concept difficulty of: a.) the number of defining attributes, and b.) the level of conceptualization (LC) of the concepts' attributes. One hundred ...