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# {{lb|en|transitive|intransitive|psychology}} To [[judge]] (the [[number]] of [[object]]s in a [[group]]) [[rapidly]], [[accurately]] and [[confidently]] without [[count]]ing them. {{defdate|from 1949}} |
# {{lb|en|transitive|intransitive|psychology}} To [[judge]] (the [[number]] of [[object]]s in a [[group]]) [[rapidly]], [[accurately]] and [[confidently]] without [[count]]ing them. {{defdate|from 1949}} |
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|passage=Previous researchers have noted a similarity between the set sizes that adults can estimate rapidly, or '''subitize''', and the set sizes that infants can discriminate: both are less than five items. This similarity has led some to suggest that '''subitizing''' is {{...}}}} |
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#* {{quote-book|en|year=2016|author=Jennifer Taylor-Cox|title=Math Intervention P–2: Building Number Power with Formative Assessments, Differentiation, and Games, Grades PreK–2|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317426202|page=52 |
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|passage=When students '''subitize''', they know how many because the arrangement is familiar and/or friendly. While recent information about the benefits of teaching '''subitizing''' has surfaced (Clements, 1999), early use of the term appeared more than {{...}}}} |
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Revision as of 22:36, 14 December 2022
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin subitus (“sudden; unexpected”) + -ize, from the feeling of immediately knowing the number of items present.
Pronunciation
Verb
subitize (third-person singular simple present subitizes, present participle subitizing, simple past and past participle subitized)
- (transitive, intransitive, psychology) To judge (the number of objects in a group) rapidly, accurately and confidently without counting them. [from 1949]
- 2002, Kelly S. Mix, Janellen Huttenlocher, Susan Cohen Levine, Quantitative Development in Infancy and Early Childhood, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 47:
- Previous researchers have noted a similarity between the set sizes that adults can estimate rapidly, or subitize, and the set sizes that infants can discriminate: both are less than five items. This similarity has led some to suggest that subitizing is […]
- 2016, Jennifer Taylor-Cox, Math Intervention P–2: Building Number Power with Formative Assessments, Differentiation, and Games, Grades PreK–2, Routledge, →ISBN, page 52:
- When students subitize, they know how many because the arrangement is familiar and/or friendly. While recent information about the benefits of teaching subitizing has surfaced (Clements, 1999), early use of the term appeared more than […]
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Translations
to judge (the number of objects in a group)
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