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From the Vault: The Origins of Numeracy

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The Difference Between Numbers and Arithmetic

Babies that are good at discerning between large and small groups of items before learning to count, were more likely do better with numbers in the future. The idea here is that there 's some sort of primitive number sense that the acquisition of numerousy in mathematics is built atop of. Under logarhithmic cognition, the difference between numbers is about ratios rather than about absolute magnitude,. increasing one unit at a time.

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