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Number sense

Number sense

Number sense

Number sense is considered as an innate numeracy skill, which not only humans but also some animals, such as fish and birds have. As the name says, it refers to sense of numbers. Number sense enables us to estimate the number of cars on the parking lot without counting them on-by-one, or to tell whether there are more people queueing in one line or in the other one.

APPROXIMATE NUMBER SYSTEM (ANS)

It has been proposed that we use a system called approximate number system, ANS, when estimating magnitudes (e.g. object or dots) approximately, or making comparisons of numbers (1).

When testing what kind of number sense an individual has, researchers often use tasks, in which you need to compare a number of dots or number symbols. Those who have a good number sense often respond quicker and more accurately in these tasks compared to those with weaker number sense.

Look at the pictures.

Can you quickly estimate which of the pictures has more dots?

Number sense is considered as an innate numeracy skill, which not only humans but also some animals, such as fish and birds have. As the name says, it refers to sense of numbers. Number sense enables us to estimate the number of cars on the parking lot without counting them on-by-one, or to tell whether there are more people queueing in one line or in the other one.

APPROXIMATE NUMBER SYSTEM (ANS)

It has been proposed that we use a system called approximate number system, ANS, when estimating magnitudes (e.g. object or dots) approximately, or making comparisons of numbers (1).

When testing what kind of number sense an individual has, researchers often use tasks, in which you need to compare a number of dots or number symbols. Those who have a good number sense often respond quicker and more accurately in these tasks compared to those with weaker number sense.

Look at the pictures.

Can you quickly estimate which of the pictures has more dots?

Number sense is considered as an innate numeracy skill, which not only humans but also some animals, such as fish and birds have. As the name says, it refers to sense of numbers. Number sense enables us to estimate the number of cars on the parking lot without counting them on-by-one, or to tell whether there are more people queueing in one line or in the other one.

APPROXIMATE NUMBER SYSTEM (ANS)

It has been proposed that we use a system called approximate number system, ANS, when estimating magnitudes (e.g. object or dots) approximately, or making comparisons of numbers (1).

When testing what kind of number sense an individual has, researchers often use tasks, in which you need to compare a number of dots or number symbols. Those who have a good number sense often respond quicker and more accurately in these tasks compared to those with weaker number sense.

Look at the pictures.

Can you quickly estimate which of the pictures has more dots?

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- Oct 26, 2019
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Adventure day 2

This week we started the second round of data collection in our project at UiO, and by the end of the week, 40 students had already visited us. As previously, the children come in small groups for half a day to do different types of tasks. This time the focus is mainly on numeracy and motivation. Some of the children do also numeracy tasks on computer with eye-tracker. The theme for the adventure day is spy training!

For eye-tracking tasks, we have developed novel eye-tracking tasks with some help from our Swedish collaborator. Those tasks focus more specifically on number sense and addition skills. The spy mouse is hidden in these tasks as well.

For the first month of data collection, we are having a super team of seven master students from our department, who are doing their internship in the project. The main activities for the students during the internship are taking part in the data collection, getting familiar with assessment procedures, working with children, and also getting to know what kind of research is conducted and how in our department. Students who participate in data collection, have also possibility to do their master thesis later on related to the project data.

The super team of students from ISP

It will be another six busy weeks ahead of us with data collection, however, with this team, I am confident that we will have nice days ahead of us, and lots of valuable data to work with later on.

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