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The human brain and mathematics: recent research and educational questions

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Abstract

New understandings of the functioning of human brains engaged in mathematics raise interesting questions for mathematics educators. Novel lines of research are suggested by neuroscientific findings, and new light is shed on some longstanding issues in mathematics education.

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@article{arxiv.2109.01090,
  title  = {The human brain and mathematics: recent research and educational questions},
  author = {Gary E. Davis and Mercedes A. McGowen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.01090},
  year   = {2021}
}

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21 pages, 11 figures