Searching for the basis of symbolic number understanding

2020.07.11.
Searching for the basis of symbolic number understanding

Understanding number is not only important in math classes, but it is one of the essential bases of scientific and more broadly, STEM education. Lack of this understanding is reflected in the math-specific learning disability, developmental dyscalculia, affecting 5-10% of the children1 , making dyscalculia one of the most frequent learning disabilities. Also, there are countless every day and work related situations that rely on elementary number understanding: it has tremendous impact on the productiveness in economy and more generally on well-being of our society.