认知工具是支持、指引和扩充学习者思想过程的心智模式和设备，能帮助和促进认知过程，在培养学习者批判性思维、创造性思维和综合思维中起着重要作用。
我们必须掌握数字的认知工具，才能始终轻松识别更大的数量。
We must be handed the cognitive tools of numbers before we can consistently and easily recognize higher quantities.
事实上，对其他一些物种的研究表明，如果引入我们称之为数字的认知工具，它们也可以完善自己的定量思维。
Indeed, work with some other species suggests they too can refine their quantitative thought if they are introduced to the cognitive power tools we call numbers.
隐喻是人类的认知工具，同时也是汉语中一个重要的造词法。
Metaphor is not only a cognitive tool of human beings, but also an important word formation approach in Chinese.
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