What parents can take from this research
The capacity to reason through new patterns and relationships is relevant to later mathematical development, not only stored factual knowledge.
What the research found
Fluid reasoning predicted future mathematical performance above several other cognitive measures in the longitudinal study.
Full citation
Caroline T. Green et al. (2017). Fluid reasoning predicts future mathematical performance among children and adolescents. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
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