September 2, 2008

Learning in the early years

A has found that children who learn maths in the early year learning years often tend to be much better at the subject when they get to the age of ten, than those children who did not learn maths in the preschool years.

The research carried out by Edward Melhuish, a professor of human development at the Institute for the Study of Children, Families, and Social Issues, University of London studied over two and half thousand children who went to preschool for at least eighteen months before completing at least five years in primary school.

As an average, these children managed achieve a standard, which is about twenty-seven per cent better than those children who did not learn maths in their early school years.

Source [IT Wire]