The useful educational outcome is the change you can see in the maths: knowledge becoming easier to retrieve, calculations becoming more fluent and familiar skills becoming easier to apply.
Arithmetic learning has neural correlates
Developmental neuroimaging research has linked fact retrieval and arithmetic learning with changing hippocampal, prefrontal and neocortical engagement.[1][2]
What changes as arithmetic becomes fluent
Longitudinal research suggests that arithmetic development involves changing coordination between hippocampal and neocortical systems as children become more able to retrieve facts efficiently.[2]
What this can mean for your child
For a parent, the meaningful outcome is practical: your child can retrieve, understand and apply the mathematics more reliably as the foundations become secure.
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참고문헌
- Soohyun Cho et al. (2012). Hippocampal-prefrontal engagement and dynamic causal interactions in the maturation of children’s fact retrieval. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Shaozheng Qin et al. (2014). Hippocampal-neocortical functional reorganization underlies children’s cognitive development. Nature Neuroscience.