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I also wonder about this. (I am a research meteorologist, and reasonably good with numbers). In my own schooling, I was a relatively mediocre performer until the 3'rd grade, when an alert teacher noticed I couldn't see the writing on the blackboard. She alerted my parents, I was then fitted with glasses, and I went from a "C" to an "A" almost immediately, and the rest is history. I wonder how many of those children in the test had their vision checked first to eliminate that as a cause of poor performance.

Anyone who's worked with children can tell you that some of them are gifted beyond their peers in certain areas. Two of my children could talk amazingly early, and (surprise!) as adults they are great at public speaking, with no training and little experience. Myself, when I was a child I could easily do my brother's math several grade levels above my own, because it seemed to me to be obvious extensions of what I already knew. If I got stuck, my brother only had to show me once. That's not normal. (Why do you think we have grade levels?) I became a physicist. Is anyone surprised? Other children are unusually athletic, or musical, or empathetic, or imaginative, or energetic, or daring, etc., etc., etc. Find the right tests, and you'll prove these are innate characteristics, with a wide range of innate ability. This only upsets people because of our prejudice towards certain abilities (the ones that make money).

by training some child in more experienced in the begin of life they give them some push like engineering in first inborn they love Mechano as example bespheil.

I believe it is very true that certain people are born with an affinity to certain abilities or traits. I think we should develop more tests that give us an idea of what our children excel in while still at a very young age. With this, we can better direct their paths of practice and education to lead to a more efficient society.

"the team of psychologists tested 200 four-year-old children ??? this age, because it precedes formal math training ??? on several tasks measuring number sense, mathematical ability and verbal ability."

Most four-year-olds may not have had "formal" math training, but many four-years can do basic math. I know all three of mine did. They could do addition and subraction of the various items that they had, whether toy blocks, or pieces of food.

"the parents or guardians of the children were given an assessment that asked them to indicate each word on a list that their children had been heard to say"

Sound like a test of the parents' memory, or quantity of time spent with the child, more than a test of the child.

"math ability has been thought to be highly dependent on culture and language and takes many years to learn"

Huh? Basic math is learned very quickly, not in years.

"...ability... takes years to learn" WTH?

While an "ability" may be inborn, basic math skills are taught, and therfore are a learned behavior. Teach your children to add and subtract every object, and they will learn math quite easily. Multipication is best learned by drills and memorization. The answer to "What is nine times six" should come as readily as the answer to "What is your name."

If you haven't trained your children by the time they're four, it's almost too late.

This "study" also ignores enviromental and birth order factors.