Brain Power - Studying Young Minds, and How to Teach Them - Series - NYTimes.com - 10 views
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Dave Truss on 19 Feb 10*Need a free NYT account. For much of the last century, educators and many scientists believed that children could not learn math at all before the age of five, that their brains simply were not ready. But recent research has turned that assumption on its head - that, and a host of other conventional wisdom about geometry, reading, language and self-control in class.