Parents whose children struggle with math may have new reason to be hopeful: A recent study at the Johns Hopkins University suggests that young people can improve their performance by carrying out a few simple computer exercises unrelated to numbers or math symbols.
A team of researchers in the university's department of psychological and brain sciences found that 5-year-olds who played a five-minute computer game - and played it in a particular way - scored significantly higher than their peers on a given set of math problems.
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