[CGSC 2001] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (23 pages long)

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Guest speaker math cognition and math anxiety. Innate math abilities: non symbolic magnitude discrimination. Animals and quantity: innate math cognition in animals (apporoximate number system) Distance effects: easier to judge quantity if they are far apart. Ex eleven in english vs ten-one in chinese, japanses, turkish. The numbers are shorter and faster in other languages than english: shorter = better recall. Expectations (cid:862)(cid:373)ath is hard(cid:863) a(cid:374)d its fi(cid:374)e to (cid:271)e (cid:271)ad at (cid:373)ath (cid:862)if youre (cid:374)ot s(cid:373)art you (cid:272)a(cid:374)t do (cid:373)ath(cid:863) Different social attitude in north america, importance on reading but not math. Interest and motivation: self-efficacy, beliefs about mathematics and mathematic abilities. If you think youre either good at math or not: math anxiety. The brain: numerical processing uses three pathways. Special attention: special working memory, rotations/ transformations. Capacity to keep things in mind when performing complex tasks. Visuo-spatial very important when first learning math, predictor of later.

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