Preschoolers' grasp of numbers predicts math performance in school years

Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 17:00 in Mathematics & Economics

A new study published today in the journal PLoS ONE reports that the precision with which preschoolers estimate quantities, prior to any formal education in mathematics, predicts their mathematics ability in elementary school, according to research from the Kennedy Krieger Institute.

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