As the idiom goes, numbers are as "easy as one-two-three." However, learning about them as a child is rarely that simple. It takes several years of formal and informal education to understand what number words mean, how numbers relate to one another, and the fact that they are infinite.
This video showcases research from the Cognitive & Developmental Neuroscience Lab at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, which investigates how children come to understand that numbers are combinatorial and generative.
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