News articles of interest to higher education LLAS subject fields.
Humans have an in-built ability to do mathematics even if they do not have the language to express it, a research team has suggested.
A study in Australian Aboriginal children, whose languages lack number words, found they did just as well as English-speaking children in numeracy.
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
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