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The authors report the results of some half dozen years of research into when and how children acquire numerical skills. They provide a new set of answers to th

Understanding Numbers is a carefully written series of mathematics to help students encourage the study of mathematics in the best interactive form. It contains

Numbers saturate the news, politics, and life. The average person can use basic knowledge and common sense to put the never-ending onslaught of facts and figure