The approximate number system and its role in learning mathematics Seminar
- Time:
- 13:00 - 14:00
- Date:
- 28 February 2012
- Venue:
- Building 32 room 2097 Highfield Campus Southampton
Event details
The seminar will be relevant to a wide variety of staff and students.
Psychologists have proposed that humans have an "Approximate Number System" (ANS) that has an important role in mathematics learning and performance. I will present data from a series of experiments with children and adults that demonstrate the situations in which the ANS is, and is not, related to an individual's maths performance. I will show that our understanding of the ANS, and the tasks designed to measure it, are far from complete.
Speaker information
Dr Camilla Gilmore , Maths Education Centre, Loughborough University . Camilla's research interests look at numerical and mathematical abilities in adults and children.