Children’s arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic mathematics - Nature Children who learn maths working in markets and children who learn maths only from school were both unable to transfer their skills to new contexts, highlighting a need to reconsider how maths is...

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In a series of experiments, Indian kids who work in markets mentally solved complex calculations, but were unable to solve the same problems "when presented in an abstract formatW.
The opposite was true for schoolkids.

I wonder what would the
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