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"ric carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> # Revealed: How the brain calculates. (BBC) Researchers have produced new
> evidence about how the brain handles mathematics, which might help improve
> teaching children who have difficulty with numbers. They have established
> that 2 very different brain functions are involved - as previous studies of
> brain-damaged patients have hinted. One is a non-verbal, visual and spatial
> sense of quantity - the other has to do with symbols related to language.
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_337000/337328.stm
>
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Fascinating, and it illuminates a personal problem for me. I am mildly
dyscalculiac--especially when I am tired or distracted, numbers tend to jump
around and even basic arithmetic becomes extremely difficult. I can read a
column of figures aloud as I enter it on a calculator--but the numbers I key
into the calculator are not the same ones I am reading. This tendency makes
any mathematics involving numbers almost physically painful for me, and as a
result I did miserably in math...until I took symbolic logic and calculus,
both of which deal primarily with abstract letters and symbols. Suddenly I
found myself aceing a math course, a totally new experience! A sidelight on
this problem is that I am left-handed. We lefties are notorious for stumbling
over our tongues--we often find ourselves unable to use the correct word for
what we want to say. (The most famous example is George H.W. Bush, who is
forever referring to "the <whatever> thing"... Bill Clinton is one of the rare
exceptions; he is a leftie who is extremely fluent, even prolix, in speaking.)
The BBC article notes that the left frontal lobe, where exact calculations
take place, also seems to control connections between words; this makes me
suspect that there may be a relationship, at least in my case, between my
left-handedness and my dyscalculia. Ric, vielen, vielen Dank for posting this
one!
Bob
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