Math Skills
"Adolescents' Functional Numeracy Is Predicted by Their School Entry Number-System Knowledge"
A child's ability to understand and manipulate sets of numbers in 1st grade predicts how well he or she will succeed in the math required both in secondary school and for day-to-day living, according to a study published in the current online edition of the journal PLOS One .
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