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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (45759)	12/14/2005 1:07:37 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

One of the things I've given a lot of thought to is that math is a language of sorts and like any language early learning is very important. In a spoken language, there is lots of evidence that brain development in the areas of the brain that are responsible for speech and language occurs in response to hearing language, the two occur simultaneously. The brain is stimulated to grow in response to the child trying to speak and learn the rules of grammar. But there is a window of opportunity for this development to occur, it occurs at a particular time in a child's physical development. This is one of the reasons a child who grows up in a bilingual environment will always be a better speaker than an adult learner. Also, there is lot's of evidence that children who go through that period of their lives without being stimulated to learn language never develop that part of their brain no matter how much time you devote to teaching them later because the physical development of their brains is over. I think this is true with math (as well as music). If a child gets past a certain age without someone making demands on their developing brain to learn it, they will be like that foreign language adult learner....they can do it with effort, but it is a much more difficult struggle and they never are as fluent as an individual who was exposed when their brains were still growing. Also, like any language, if you don't use it you lose it.