Friday, July 1, 2011
Interesting article about number words
I picked this one up via NPR - do differences in number systems make for differences in mental processing and memory? Sounds likely in this article. I doubt it can be reasonably connected to differences in math scores, however. There are a lot of layers of cultural complexity between number processing, schooling, and testing that this stuff won't account for.
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When I used to have to memorize phone numbers rather than saving them on my cell phone, I tended to remember the pattern on the keypad easiest. Sometimes someone would ask me the number and I'd mentally think over the pattern. Must be a kinesthetic thing. Now of course I'm losing my memory skill, but there's also too many numbers to remember without computer assistance, and people's numbers also change more frequently.
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