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New research finds babies grasp maths before walking

Babies can add before they can walk according to new research

16 February 2006 14:58 GMT / By Stuart Miles

The BBC is reporting that babies have a rudimentary grasp of maths long before they can walk or talk, according to new research.

According to the report “By the age of seven months infants have an abstract sense of numbers and are able to match the number of voices they hear with the number of faces they see.”

The research could be useful in devising methods for teaching basic maths skills to the very young, say researchers in the US.

The study is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Now if only we could get them to learn how to use a calculator they could do my tax return.

Via BBC

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