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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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This function lights up when we are faced with any numerical digit. It could be a phone number, a math fact, or a time. It does not merely add, subtract, multiply and divide. Our brain’s calculator also has a memory function, holding and recalling digits necessary to figure out profits and loss, budgeting, and financial analysis. Our Quantification Sense function goes even further than a traditional calculator, it has a ‘sense’ of number. Meaning, it understands the essential nature of number– think of a calculator with AI - it “thinks” whenever we are using number: to manage time, music, magnitude, budgeting or baking.  

Essential in Skills Such As:

  • Mathematics and numeracy

  • Mental calculations

  • Financial competence

  • Time management

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