the Level of education of parents affects the ability of children to mathematics. To such conclusion scientists have come after a long observations of 14 thousands of families.
According to the study, which was published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, people with higher education, children learn math by 41 percent better than their peers whose parents did not graduate from the universities.
Daniel Evans and her colleagues from the University of Sussex studied the impact of various factors on the ability to learn this school subject. To this end, they analyzed the results of a Longitudinal study of parents and children of the County of Avon, long-term monitoring of 14 thousands of children born in 1991-1992, and their parents.
In particular, we analyzed the results of four mathematical test participants in the experiment at the age from six to sixteen years old, as well as their emotional temperament in three years, IQ at eight years of age, working memory ten and symptoms of internalization (the process of development of the external structures in which they become internal regulators) in 11 years.
the Study was based on the biological sex of the participants, socio-economic status of their families, level of parents ‘ education and presence in their lives traumatic events.
higher scores were boys, children with high IQ and those who lived in a family with high socio-economic status and had more educated parents. Where children were raised by the people with higher education, they were more successful in mathematics by 41 per cent.
