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"Author Argues that Everyone is Born with a Head for Numbers": Review of What Counts: How Every Brain is Hardwired for Math, by Brian Butterworth. Reviewed by Malcolm J. Sherman. American Scientist, September/October 1999, pages 458-461.
This book review contrasts the perspective of Piaget, who argued that humans have no innate understanding of mathematics, with the perspective of Brian Butterworth, who argues in his book for the existence of a "math module" in the brain. The reviewer disagrees with Butterworth's advocacy of the "discovery learning" approach to mathematics education.
--- Allyn Jackson
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