One in five adults in the United States lacks the math competency expected of an eighth grader, according to the United States Center for Educational Statistics.
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.
Intervention programs designed to overcome this early math deficiency could prepare students for later employment, help them make wiser economic choices and improve the future U.S. workforce.
“Our study made a connection between child psychology and labor economics in order to examine the roots of America’s shortage of mathematically proficient workers"...
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