Delta-K,  Research,  Volume 42, Issue 2

Emergent Insights into Mathematical Intelligence from Cognitive Science

Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association

Volume 43 Issue 2, June 2005

10 – 19

Emergent Insights into Mathematical Intelligence from Cognitive Science

Brent Davis

In this article, I point to a handful of recent developments in cognitive science in an attempt to highlight how they might contribute to a rethinking of the nature of mathematical intelligence. ln the process, I also offer some preliminary speculations on what these developments might mean for the teaching of mathematics.