Check out this excerpt from the Business Insider Article "Science says parents of successful kids have these 13 things in common" by Rachel Gillett and Drake Baer. Number 6 on the list is about the importance of teaching children math at an early age!
6. They teach their kids math early on.
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A 2007 meta-analysisof 35,000 preschoolers across the US, Canada, and England found that developing math skills early can turn into a huge advantage.
"The paramount importance of early math skills — of beginning school with a knowledge of numbers, number order, and other rudimentary math concepts — is one of the puzzles coming out of the study," coauthor and Northwestern University researcher Greg Duncan said in a press release. "Mastery of early math skills predicts not only future math achievement, it also predicts future reading achievement."
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