Infant Math

Researchers have recently found that there could be a connection between an infant's early number sense and his or her later comprehension in mathematics. There was a test conducted with 46 6-month old babies in which each baby was set in front of two screens, each screen containing separate numbers of dots. One screen's number of dots changes while the other stays the same, just in different formats. The study shows that the babies payed more attention to the screen that changed in number than the one that stayed the same. Further studies were conducted when the babies were 3 1/2 years old in which a similar dots on the screen test was shown, and it concluded that the children that scored higher on the preference tests also scored higher on those tests. Future research may be done in order to better develop and understand the crucial years of learning and growth as a baby.

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