Blue Nines and Red Words
What Does the author Daniel Tammet consider his "friends"
Numbers
What mathematical sense are humans born with?
Estimation
Which of the following is NOT one of the area of intelligence according to Howard Gardner?
A. Creativity
B. Logical-Mathematical
C. Bodily Kinesthetic
Research shows that bilingualism is associated with a delay in _________
Alzheimer's disease
If Sydney wants to approximate the number of candies in a jar, what does she want to do?
What is the main idea of the text?
Different minds make sense of the world in different ways
What did the case of "the approximate man" teach researchers about that brain?
There are separate centers in the brain for learned math and estimation
Gardner's theory suggests...
Most people have a combination of these kinds of intelligences, but they will often display some types more strongly than others
What are the two types of bilingual acquisition?
A. Sequential and simultaneous
B. Simultaneous and supplementary
C. Sequential and supplmentary
A. Sequential and simultaneous
When people say that Jess has an innate appreciation of the outdoors, what do they mean?
Her love of the outdoors is a natural part of her
The author's relationship with others looks like
He makes effort to understand others
Which of the following best summarizes the information present in "gut math" about number sense in animals?
A. Animals can be trained to recognize numbers in a lab setting but not in the wild
B. Animals use number sense to help them find food, avoid predators, and locate shelter.
C. Number sense is one of the main features that distinguishes humans from other animals.
B. Animals use number sense to help them find food, avoid predators, and locate shelter.
Which type of intelligence best relates to the idea of number sense
Logical-Mathematical
Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the CON section of the article?
A. Most people in other countries speak english
B. People should increase their math skills
C. Learning languages is difficult
Learning languages is difficult
If a company wants its website to be intuitive for customers, what does the company want the website to be?
Easy to use without thinking
The author eats exactly 45 grams of porridge each morning. What aspect of his condition does this behavior illustrate?
His need for order and routine
What is the relationship between the ability to estimate and formal math skills?
If a person has a strong ability to estimate, then he or she is also likely to be good at formal math
Various answers, but a snail shell is one
What is the author diagnosed with?
Synesthesia
Because we store multiplication facts in our brains as groups of words instead of using our number sense