IF YOU think you’re “not a numbers person”, you might be correct. It seems that some people are born with a better sense of numbers than others – although that doesn’t mean education can’t improve your mathematical abilities.
Being good at maths is thought to rely on two factors: the inherent sense of numbers that children possess from a very young age, and formal school education. How these factors are related had not been investigated, until now.
Justin Halberda at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and his colleagues assessed the ability of 64 American 14-year-olds to guess the number of…
