Hãy tham khảo IELTS Academic Reading Sample 62 - Numeration được chia sẻ dưới đây để giúp các bạn biết thêm cấu trúc đề thi như thế nào, rèn luyện kỹ năng giải bài tập và có thêm tư liệu tham khảo chuẩn bị cho kì thi sắp tới đạt điểm tốt hơn. | Numeration One of the first great intellectual feats of a young child is learning how to talk closely followed by learning how to count. From earliest childhood we are so bound up with our system of numeration that it is a feat of imagination to consider the problems faced by early humans who had not yet developed this facility. Careful consideration of our system of numeration leads to the conviction that rather than being a facility that comes naturally to a person it is one of the great and remarkable achievements of the human race. It is impossible to learn the sequence of events that led to our developing the concept of number. Even the earliest of tribes had a system of numeration that if not advanced was sufficient for the tasks that they had to perform. Our ancestors had little use for actual numbers instead their considerations would have been more of the kind Is this enough rather than He many when they were engaged in food gathering for example. However when early humans first began to reflect on the nature of things around them they discovered that they needed an idea of number simply to keep their thoughts in order. As they began to settle grow plants and herd animals the need for a sophisticated number system became paramount. It will never be known how and when this numeration ability developed but it is certain that numeration was well developed by the time humans had formed even semipermanent settlements. Evidence of early stages of arithmetic and numeration can be readily found. The indigenous peoples of Tasmania were only able to count one two many those of South Africa counted one two two and one two twos two twos and one and so on. But in real situations the number and words are offen accompanied by gestures to help resolve any confusion. For example when using the one two many type of system the word many would mean Look my hands and see how many fingers 1 am showing you. This basic approach is limited in the range of numbers that it can .
