The common way of thinking used by people who are exceptionally fast at mental arithmetic

"Wait, you're already done calculating?"When I see a child who is fast at mental arithmetic, I want to ask them that.I have been creating my own math diagnostic content, and after looking at the ...
The Conversation

Arithmetic has a biological origin – it’s an expression in symbols of the ‘deep structure’ of our perception

Everyone knows that arithmetic is true: 2 + 2 = 4. But surprisingly, we don’t know why it’s true. By stepping outside the box of our usual way of thinking about numbers, my colleagues and I have ...
Phys.org

Psychological study suggests arithmetic is biologically-based and a natural consequence of our perception

Everyone knows that 2 + 2 = 4, but why do we have arithmetic in the first place, and why is it true? Researchers at the University of Canterbury have recently answered these questions by "reverse ...
Nature

Symbolic arithmetic knowledge without instruction

The above experiments were conducted in a quiet laboratory setting and focused on children living in a relatively wealthy and highly educated community. To investigate their generality, we used the ...
New Scientist

To infinity and beyond: The struggle to save arithmetic

IF YOU were forced to learn long division at school, you might have had cause to curse whoever invented arithmetic. A wearisome whirl of divisors and dividends, of bringing the next digit down and ...