The key to improving today's workforce could lie in the elementary school math class, new research shows.
A study by University of Missouri researchers identified how a lack of a specific math skill in first grade correlated to lower scores on a seventh-grade math test used to determine employability and wages in adults.
David Geary, a Missouri professor and the study's lead author, said the
research made a connection between child psychology and labor economics
in order to examine the roots of America's shortage of mathematically
proficient workers. Data from the United States Center for Educational
Statistics revealed that one in five adults lacks the math competency
expected of an eighth-grader.
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