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Number Sense

Number Sense is a foundational cognitive construct in mathematics education that encompasses an individual's intuitive understanding of numbers, their magnitudes, relationships, and operations, distinguishing it from rote computational skills by emphasizing flexible, contextually informed reasoning with quantities.

7.5K

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499.6K

Citations

10.3K

Authors

2.4K

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2017–2026

1.6K

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Number Sense Intervention

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7.5K

The mental representation of parity and number magnitude.

Stanislas Dehaene, Serge Bossini, Pascal Giraux · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 1993 · 2.5K citations

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THREE PARIETAL CIRCUITS FOR NUMBER PROCESSING

Stanislas Dehaene, Manuela Piazza, Philippe Pinel et al. · Cognitive Neuropsychology · 2003 · 2.5K citations

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The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics.

Reuben Hersh, Stanislas Dehaene · American Mathematical Monthly · 1998 · 2.1K citations

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The number sense: how the mind creates mathematics

Choice Reviews Online · 1998 · 2K citations

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The Child's Conception of Number

E. A. Peel, J. Piaget · British Journal of Educational Studies · 1953 · 1.8K citations

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Authors

10.3K

  1. SD
    Stanislas Dehaene

    Inserm, France

    72 publications · 20.8K citations

    50

    h-index

  2. HN
    Hans‐Christoph Nuerk

    University of Tübingen, Germany

    100 publications · 6.4K citations

    47

    h-index

  3. DC
    David C. Geary

    University of Missouri, United States

    53 publications · 9.7K citations

    41

    h-index

  4. KM
    Korbinian Moeller

    University of Tübingen, Germany

    82 publications · 4.4K citations

    40

    h-index

  5. BD
    Bert De Smedt

    KU Leuven, Belgium

    73 publications · 5K citations

    40

    h-index

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Institutions

2.4K

  1. KU Leuven

    Leuven, Belgium

    58 h-index

    475 publications

    30.5K citations

  2. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    53 h-index

    198 publications

    20.2K citations

  3. UCLouvain

    Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    52 h-index

    202 publications

    16.8K citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    52 h-index

    110 publications

    19.8K citations

  5. University of Tübingen

    Tübingen, Germany

    51 h-index

    297 publications

    16.9K citations

  6. Inserm

    Paris, France

    50 h-index

    219 publications

    44.1K citations

  7. University of Padua

    Padua, Italy

    47 h-index

    266 publications

    21.3K citations

  8. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    46 h-index

    230 publications

    18.9K citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

    JECP · 205 publications · 22.1K citations

    85

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  2. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

    JRME · 220 publications · 21.3K citations

    79

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  3. Cognition

    143 publications · 20K citations

    73

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  4. Educational Studies in Mathematics

    161 publications · 9.5K citations

    53

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  5. Journal of Educational Psychology

    111 publications · 10.8K citations

    51

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