Baby Math

Duke University. "Baby's innate number sense predicts future math skill." ScienceDaily, 22 Oct. 2013. Web. 23 Oct. 2013.

 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131022170828.htm

Through a series of studies, researchers at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences have concluded that exposing an infant to an inborn number sense, can help predict the child's mathematical future. Inborn number senses include concepts such as large or small, tall or short, and black and white. The studies examined "48 6-month-old infants to see whether they could recognize numerical changes" (Duke University). A projected image displayed 2 quantities, one large and one small.  A child who concentrated on the larger image was said to be able to comprehend the differences in quantities, theoretically being able to achieve higher future math skills.

Three and a half years later, the same 48 children were examined again.  The infants who were able to distinguish the difference in quantities from the first experiment, were indeed ranked at a higher math level than the children who could not.  According to this research, the results of this experiment can predict how the infants will do on their ACTs and SATs.