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Quantification Sense

The Quantification Sense cognitive function is responsible for understanding or having a sense of number and quantity.

Quantification Sense
  • Description

    Quantification Sense is Involved in:

    • sense of number, magnitude, and quantity 
    • understanding number related to time, distance, money, and various units of measurement
    • understanding place value, for example 10, 100, 1000
    • learning how to count
    • sensing ‘how much’ of a quantity is required for a task, for example, how much money for a purchase, how much gas for a specific distance, how much food for a specific number of people
    • retaining numbers in one’s head and doing mental calculations
    • calculating change
    • learning math facts
    • time management
    • budgeting
    • time signature in music
  • Difficulty

    A Difficulty in This Cognitive Function Leads to:

    • trouble in developing a sense of number and quantity
    • problems in simple counting, calculating change, and learning the addition and multiplication tables
    • running late 
    • struggling with estimating how long a task will take to complete
    • running out of money
    • being unsuccessful in planning or following a budget
    • struggling with modifying the measurements in a recipe based on the number of guests
    • difficulty in doing mental math calculations
    • difficulty in time signature in music
  • Enhancement

    Enhancing This Function Leads to:

    • an improved sense of number and its magnitude
    • increased ability to hold and manipulate numbers in one’s head required for math calculations, for example doing mental math and calculating change
    • improved ability to learn and retain math facts, for example addition and multiplication tables
    • increased understanding of units of measurement such as time (required for scheduling) and money (required for budgeting)

Quantification Sense is Involved in:

  • sense of number, magnitude, and quantity 
  • understanding number related to time, distance, money, and various units of measurement
  • understanding place value, for example 10, 100, 1000
  • learning how to count
  • sensing ‘how much’ of a quantity is required for a task, for example, how much money for a purchase, how much gas for a specific distance, how much food for a specific number of people
  • retaining numbers in one’s head and doing mental calculations
  • calculating change
  • learning math facts
  • time management
  • budgeting
  • time signature in music

A Difficulty in This Cognitive Function Leads to:

  • trouble in developing a sense of number and quantity
  • problems in simple counting, calculating change, and learning the addition and multiplication tables
  • running late 
  • struggling with estimating how long a task will take to complete
  • running out of money
  • being unsuccessful in planning or following a budget
  • struggling with modifying the measurements in a recipe based on the number of guests
  • difficulty in doing mental math calculations
  • difficulty in time signature in music

Enhancing This Function Leads to:

  • an improved sense of number and its magnitude
  • increased ability to hold and manipulate numbers in one’s head required for math calculations, for example doing mental math and calculating change
  • improved ability to learn and retain math facts, for example addition and multiplication tables
  • increased understanding of units of measurement such as time (required for scheduling) and money (required for budgeting)

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You meet a new person, perhaps while you’re travelling in a foreign country. They introduce themselves with a name you’ve not heard before. Does it take a couple of efforts before you pronounce it correctly? Later that day you see them again – how quickly can you remember how to pronounce their name, can you say it accurately? Your Broca’s is hard at work memorizing these new sounds and incorporating them into your phonemic memory of how the sounds blend into the fluent pronunciation of the word.

The ease with which you remember how to pronounce  new words in your spoken vocabulary is determined by your Broca’s capacity. 

For some, even words in their own language present a challenge. They might need to break up the word into smaller parts or substitute a well learnt word in place of the word that they struggle to pronounce. This often results in a much larger visual vocabulary than what one can produce in speech.

Essential in Skills Such As:

  • Mathematics and numeracy

  • Mental calculations

  • Financial competence

  • Time management

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