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I've been spending the past few months researching the cognitive and neural underpinnings of mathematics, as well as their implications for math education. What follows is a brief list of some of the more accessible articles I have found:

 

These are short, non-technical Wikipedia articles on the cognitive science of math and on numerical cognition. They both serve as a good introduction.

I've been spending the past few months researching the cognitive and neural underpinnings of mathematics, as well as their implications for math education. What follows is a brief list of some of the more accessible articles I have found:

 

These are short, non-technical Wikipedia articles on the cognitive science of math and on numerical cognition. They both serve as a good introduction.