托福阅读材料之如何培养对数字的敏感度.docx

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托福阅读材料之如何培养对数字的敏感度
Being able to speak a language is they key to understanding numbers, scientists have discovered. A research project found that deaf people who had not learned a language containing symbols used for counting were unable prehend any number greater than three. Experts said the reason was that they had not studied the familiar ‘count list’ of one to ten that most people are taught when they are young。

有科学家经过研究后发现,语言能力高的人对数字的敏感度也很高,在实验中科学家发现,失聪的人没有掌握关于“数字语言”情况下,认识的数字不超过3个。专家分析,他们对数字不敏感的主要原因在于这些失聪的人在年幼的时候没有学会怎样数数(1--10),专家总结到:数字与语言能力有着重大联系。

Children learn such a sequence even before they know what it means and it stays hardwired into their brain for the rest of their lives. The study is the first to identify the link between language and numeracy and was carried out by researchers at the University of Chicago. They studied deaf people from Nicaragua who had created their own unique sign language to talk to one another. These so-called ‘homesigners’ did have numbers in their culture including a ary system, so any differences they exhibited would have to solely be due to language. The first test involved asking them to answer which had the most value out of a 10-unit, 20-unit and 100-unit coin。

因为,儿童在最年幼的时候学****数数”时,也就是从1数到10,他们只是按照顺序一个一个数下来,并不知道这些数字所表示的意义。然而,这些数字好比硬性数据一样存储到他们的“大脑硬盘”中让他们在生活中发挥作用。据悉,这个关于数字与语言的联系方面的研究是由芝加哥大学的研究人员牵头的。科学家对来自