Ampiric Seminar – The cognitive foundations of mathematical thinking by Patrick Lemaire

In this presentation, Patrick Lemaire will discuss current work on mathematical cognition, focusing more specifically on children up to 10 years old. Thus, he will present how, from the moment they come into the world, babies have numerical and mathematical intuitions on which subsequent learning is based, before acquiring the basics of counting and the symbolic system of numbers, as well as calculation procedures. He will specify how these learnings mobilize, like all other school learnings, general and specific cognitive mechanisms for mathematics.