Do children learn number words by associating them with perceptual magnitudes? Recent
studies argue that approximate numerical magnitudes play a foundational role in the …

Abstract Mathematics skills relate to lifelong career, health and financial outcomes.
Individuals' cognitive abilities predict mathematics performance and there is growing …

The natural numbers may be our simplest, most useful, and best-studied abstract concepts,
but their origins are debated. I consider this debate in the context of the proposal, by Gallistel …

Mathematics skills are associated with future employment, well-being, and quality of life.
However, many adults and children fail to learn the mathematics skills they require. To …

We investigate number and arithmetic learning among a Bolivian indigenous people, the
Tsimane', for whom formal schooling is comparatively recent in history and variable in both …

Recent accounts of number word learning posit that when children learn to accurately count
sets (ie, become “cardinal principle” or “CP” knowers), they have a conceptual insight about …

After introducing the new field of cultural evolution, we review a growing body of empirical
evidence suggesting that culture shapes what people attend to, perceive and remember as …

Children's understanding of the quantities represented by number words (ie, cardinality) is a
surprisingly protracted but foundational step in their learning of formal mathematics. The …

How does language shape mathematical development? In this article, we consider this
question by reviewing findings from cross‐sectional and longitudinal research. In this …

Learners of most languages are faced with the task of acquiring words to talk about number
and quantity. Much is known about the order of acquisition of number words as well as the …