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04-12-2006, 03:13 PM | #31 |
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...sooooo, we know math from birth? ..or conception even?
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04-12-2006, 04:24 PM | #32 | |
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Numbers, The only true universal language. |
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04-12-2006, 10:35 PM | #33 | |
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There are tribes around the world, and specifically in Panama in this case, where they do not have a number system as we know it. They have, for example, only the numbers "one," "two," and "many" or "more than two." Researchers have done many tests on this, and have come to the conclusion that they're not just suffering from culture confusion, they really can't tell the difference between having five rocks in one hand and four in the other. Their brains have disposed of those functions in favor of other ones. |
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04-13-2006, 12:51 AM | #34 | |
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04-13-2006, 06:20 AM | #35 | |
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The story about Eskimos having many words for "snow" looks apocryphal, though.
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04-13-2006, 06:35 AM | #36 |
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Tangentally, I have a boy who is non-verbal in my SE class who I'm attempting to teach pre-acedemic skills to. He can match numbers of objects up to 5 with precision but any more than that and its hit or miss. Since he has difficulties with receptive language, he appears to be trying to match visually. He sometimes matches the pattern I put the blocks into and matches a higher number. It just reinforces for me the idea that language is key to organizing our thoughts.
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04-13-2006, 08:04 AM | #37 | |
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I know I said that numbers are the universal language it's also linear to think about it . To those like me who don't have much of a concept for it it is a hard language to master. I work with children as well. I guess being a student of Piaget and Elkind I have to agree that language is the way we organize our thoughts. For most of us our thoughts are conceptual. We have to organize and catorgorize. It is the first things we do is start naming things and putting things in groups.The same and different. So I don't know if I was trying to help giff or just throw something out there to let you know I understand what you are saying. It's very early here and I am barley awake yet. I no longer work with non verbal kids. I have a bunch of really nice 2nd and 3rd graders though |
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04-13-2006, 08:07 AM | #38 |
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damn I thought this was on some other thread
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04-13-2006, 01:27 PM | #39 | ||
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04-13-2006, 01:46 PM | #40 | |
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Thanks for playing along with my original thought.
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04-14-2006, 12:09 AM | #41 | |
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Alas I had to be a LEG man eh...;-) |
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04-16-2006, 04:16 PM | #42 |
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