Abstract

DE FREITAS, Nathália Luiz; FERREIRA, Fernanda de Oliveira  and  HAASE, Vítor Geraldi. Language and mathematic: a study about relations between cognitive abilities linguistics and arithmetics. Ciênc. cogn. [online]. 2010, vol.15, n.3, pp. 111-125. ISSN 1806-5821.

Interest in the cognitive relations between language and mathematics has directed numerous studies. There is no agreement on the presence of this relationship, so that some theorists conceive mathematics as an abstraction of language, others are based that math is independent of language and a third group posits that there is interdependence between the two in certain situations. This study part of the latter hypothesis and investigates the existence of relationships between cognitive abilities and linguistic arithmetic, through analysis of tasks that assess such skills. The study was approved by ethics committees of the UFOP and UFMG. 1431 students participated between second and seventh years of public and private schools from three cities in central state of Minas Gerais. The students were submitted to the School Performance Test tasks, calculations of addition and multiplication, numerical transcoding tasks and semantic verbal fluency test. The results found by calculating the Pearson correlation coefficient indicated significant positive correlations, ranging from low to very strong among all tasks. The analysis regarding the skills of transcoding numerical showed that cognitive ability seems to have very similar components to the graph-phonemic decoding. As statistical analysis showed there may be relationships between cognitive abilities and linguistic arithmetic. © Cien. Cogn. 2010; Vol. 15 (3): 111-125.

Keywords : language skills; arithmetic skills; numerical transcoding..

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