首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
People appear to be born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably that it is easy to imag
People appear to be born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably that it is easy to imag
admin
2013-11-29
26
问题
People appear to be born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturity guiding their growth. Not long after learning to walk and talk, they can set the table with impressive accuracy--one plate, one knife, one spoon, one fork, for each of the five chairs. Soon they are capable of noting that they have placed five knives, spoons, and forks on the table and, a bit later, that this amounts to fifteen pieces of silverware. Having thus mastered addition, they move on to subtraction. It seems almost reasonable to expect that if a child were secluded on a desert island at birth and retrieved seven years later, he or she could enter a second-grade mathematics class without any serius problems of intellectual adjustment.
Of course, the truth is not so simple. This century, the work of cognitive psychologists has illuminated the subtle forms of daily learning on which intellectual progress depends. Children were observed as they slowly grasped--or, as the case might be bumped into- concepts that adults take for granted, as they refused, for instance, to concede that quantity is unchanged as water pours from short stout glass into a tall thin one. Psychologists have since demonstrated that young children, asked to count the pencils in a pile, readily report the number of blue or red pencils, but must be coaxed into finding the total. Such studies have suggested that the rudiments of mathematics are mastered gradually, and with effort. They have also suggested that the very concept of abstract numbers--the idea of a oneness, a twoness, a threenes that applies to any class of objects and is a prerequisite for doing anything more mathematically demanding than setting a table--is itself far from innate.
What does the passage mainly discuss?
选项
A、Trends in teaching mathematics to children.
B、The use of mathematics in child psychology.
C、The development of mathematical ability in children.
D、The fundamental concepts of mathematics that children must learn.
答案
C
解析
本文主要讨论儿童数学能力的发展。作者在第一段说,人们的计算能力似乎与生俱来,孩子学会走路和谈话以后不久,他们就在桌子上设置餐具,计算餐具的数量,掌握了加法以后,他们继续学习减法。第二段说,研究表明,孩子们逐步地、努力地掌握数学基础知识。所以C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/HfhO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Onecanunderstandothersmuchbetterbynotingtheimmediateandfleetingreactionsoftheireyesand______toexpressedthoug
Cultureistransmittedlargelybylanguageandbythenecessityforpeopleinclosecontacttocooperate.Themoreextensivethe
Dinosaurswerereptileswhichbecameextinctabout65millionyearsago.Themostintriguingquestionaboutdinosaurshasalways
EINinoisthetermusedfortheperiodwhenseasurfacetemperaturesareabovenormalofftheSouthAmericancoastalongtheeq
Thequestionofwhetherwarisinevitableisonewhichhasconcernedmanyoftheworld’sgreatwriters.Beforeconsideringthis
TheforeignministerwouldrevealnothingabouthisrecenttouroftheMiddleEastbeyondwhathadalreadybeenannouncedatthe
FeweventsinmodernJapan’srecenthistoryhavebeenanticipatedwithgreaterinterestandexpectationthantheso-called"Bi
"Museum"isaslipperyword.Itfirstmeant(inGreek)anythingconsecratedtotheMuses:ahill,ashrine,agarden,afestival
Futuristshaveidentifiedtwochangesthatseemtobecentraltocontemporarysociallife.First,theUnitedStatesisbeingres
Futuristshaveidentifiedtwochangesthatseemtobecentraltocontemporarysociallife.First,theUnitedStatesisbeingres
随机试题
短缩舌形成的病机是
关于急性胰腺炎,下列叙述中不正确的是()
增值税纳税人销售货物或提供应税劳务,计算应纳税额时,下列哪些项目的进项税额不得从销项税额中抵扣?( )
甲向乙借款300万元于2008年12月30日到期,丁提供保证担保,丁仅对乙承担保证责任。后乙从甲处购买价值50万元的货物,双方约定2009年1月1日付款。2008年10月1日,乙将债权让与丙,并于同月15日通知甲,但未告知丁。对此,下列哪些选项是正确的?(
甲纠集他人多次在市中心寻衅滋事,造成路人乙轻伤、丙的临街商铺严重受损。甲被起诉到法院后,乙和丙提起附带民事诉讼。法院判处甲有期徒刑6年,罚金1万元,赔偿乙医疗费1万元,赔偿丙财产损失4万元。判决生效交付执行后,查明甲除1辆汽车外无其他财产,且甲曾以该汽车抵
燃气管道的安装人员必须经过培训并考试合格,当间断安装时间超过(),再次上岗前应重新考试和进行技术评定。
关于诉讼时效的起算点,下列说法中,正确的有()。
年轻的王老师为了与学生形成良好的师生关系,了解学生的学习、生活状况,经常在课间休息时与学生交谈。有一天,一个学生对他说:“老师,我来这个班级这么久了,您是第一个了解和关心我生活的人,谢谢您!”这说明()是师德的灵魂。
湖南衡阳特大火灾事故中,公安消防官兵置个人生死于不顾,为了保护人民的利益英勇工作。其中20名消防队员献出了宝贵的生命,谱写了一首人民公安为人民的壮烈诗歌。消防工作的内容主要包括()。
CrossCulturalAdvertisingAsuccessfulcrossculturaladvertisingcampaignlargelydependsoneffectivecrossculturalcommunic
最新回复
(
0
)