How to tell if your baby will be a maths genius

A six month old child's spatial awareness can reveal how well it will do at maths later in life, researchers have found. The groundbreaking study is the earliest link between spatial awareness and maths, and could explain why some people embrace maths, while others feel they are bad at it and avoid it. It shows spatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at maths at four years of age. Psychologist Stella Lourenco, whose lab conducted the research, with one of the participants. The Emory study found spatial reasoning measured at six months infancy predicts how children do at maths at four years of age.