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Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic mathematics
Nature, 2025
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Working children in India demonstrated sophisticated market calculations but struggled with equivalent abstract school-format problems, revealing a significant transfer gap.
Media coverage
These teens can do incredible math in their heads but fail in a classroom
The Hechinger Report, February 24, 2025
These teens can do incredible math in their heads but fail in a classroom
KQED MindShift, February 24, 2025
Indian schools treat math skills picked up at home and in classrooms as different
The Indian Express, February 9, 2025
Indian kids ace market math but struggle in class, finds study by Nobel laureates
India Today, February 7, 2025
Kids' real-world arithmetic skills don't transfer to the classroom
Nature Podcast, February 5, 2025
Study in India shows kids use different math skills at work vs. school
MIT News, February 5, 2025
Study in India shows kids use different math skills at work vs. school
ScienceDaily, February 5, 2025
Kids use different math skills at work vs. school, India study shows
Phys.org, February 5, 2025
Why children do well in 'street maths' but not in the classroom
Scroll.in, October 15, 2017
