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Math Ability Starts in Infancy, Study Suggests

A baby’s sense of numbers at the age of 6 months predicts how good that child will be at math at the age of 3, new research finds.

In the study, in which researchers looked at infants’ "primitive number sense," or how well they can differentiate between groups of different numbers of items, suggests this skill is a building block for future math learning.

"It may explain some of the differences in how easy children find it to learn," said study researcher Elizabeth Brannon, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University in North Carolina.

by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience

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