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Can’t calculate a tip or balance your checkbook?

Take heart. Maybe you can blame your brain — specifically, the parietal cortex in the top back part of the head. It could be a problem that has roots not in a failed arithmetic or “new math” lesson, but even earlier.

Recent findings indicate that how well 3-year-olds estimate quantities predicts their math ability in elementary school. Another study funded by the National Institutes of Health showed that the innate capacity to estimate is impaired in children who have a math learning disability.

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