My buddy, Jon from Chile, sent me an article from USA Today that sings from our hymnal.  The title of the article is Studies:  Math Skills can be predicted, improved early on.  It is a great article and pretty close to precisely what we believe about teaching and learning of math, IQ, and how early kids can learn stuff.  I love this quote from the article:

Factors such as IQ and attention span didn’t explain why some first-graders did better than others. Now Geary is studying if something that youngsters learn in preschool offers an advantage.

Large swaths of this blog are written about how we taught math to our kids in our homeschool.  Reading, exercising of memory skills and math made up the core of our educational efforts up through the first grade.  Everything became easier because of that focus.  It must have worked–Kelly is now a Senior in Statistics and Christian is a Junior in Applied Mathematics at NCSU.  This reminds me that I need to write an index to some of the stuff we wrote.  Thanks for the pointer to this great article, Jon!