“Other experiments have shown that a six-month-old baby can reliably distinguish between numbers that differ by as little as a factor of two ( like 4 and 8. ) By nine months the ratio has dropped to 1.5 (8 and 12, for example). And by adulthood the ratio is just 10 to 15 percent. The fact that the same two rules always hold true suggests that we use the same mental algorithm throughout our lives.”
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/nov/17-the-brain-humanity.s-other-basic-instinct-math
Very interesting videos - thanks for posting!!
The most interesting thing I gathered from the first video is that babies seem to understand math concepts intuitively.
They experiment by adding blocks, and the baby would seem to be able to distinguish the right answer from the wrong answer (they gaze longer when the answer is wrong - showing confusion - and shorter when the answer is correct).
I can’t watch the videos. If someone would be so kind to give me a summary. I understand if you don’t want to. Thanks ladies
I find both links very interesting. They express that math is intutuve as a baby. The mind is born with math capacities.
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Only the first one is a video and you see how a baby takes longer time wathcing how 5 figures added to other five rsult in 5 figures because it is something he does not see correct. Then when viewing a result of 1o it doesn’t take that long bcause it is right and do not require more time viewing
The other one is a ling to a document. Maybe you can try again. Here it mentions that math is someting intuitive on the human being. Hoe you can read it if not let me know to pass it to word.