Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

4-25-2025

Keywords

childhood, mathematics, number sense, parallel individuation

Disciplines

Developmental Psychology

Abstract

Mathematical Skills are essential for understanding how the world works and for solving problems that are important to human survival and prosperity.  They are used in everyday living in societies across the world.  The most basic mathematical skills involve estimating the amount of small sets of items without using symbols, called number sense, and tracking a small number of individual objects through space and time, called parallel individuation.  These skills are thought to be present at birth or early in life and to increase in precision into adulthood.

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