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They say research is needed into exactly what mathematical skills employers and universities need school leavers to have.
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Education and Childcare Minister Elizabeth Truss said pupils should only use them once they were confident in basic mathematical skills.
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If you need more evidence of the growing importance of mathematical skills, visit the web site of an organization called weusemath.org .
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What is certain, however, is that a strong understanding, ability and passion for math is needed and that these mathematical skills are very much in demand.
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He also points out that, although British pupils are worse than their East Asian counterparts at arithmetic, they are better at higher-order mathematical skills such as geometry and handling data.
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It begins in the primary and secondary grades, where the acumen for and interest in the scientific method and mathematical skills are most easily developed in our young boys and girls.
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The studies together indicate that math ability is inborn in many species, with number sense, mathematical skills and verbal ability perhaps being separate talents in humans that we later learn to combine.
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During these conversations, I have described how mathematical and related analytical skills are essential in many fields including, for example, marketing, advertising and consulting.
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It would not be hard for an autistic individual to clock up that level of practice for the sort of skills, such as mathematical puzzles, that many neurotypicals would rapidly give up on.
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The scientists -- who bring varied skills to the table, including mathematical modeling and psychiatry -- believe they have cracked how long-term memories are made, stored and retrieved and how to replicate this process in brains that are damaged, particularly by stroke or localized injury.
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