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Have you ever wondered why some kids struggle more with math than others?

There's more to it than simply saying, well, some kids happen to be a bit smarter, more gifted in that area.

Science now has some answers and we'll bring those to you coming up next.

This story comes to us from Science News and ScienceNews.org.

Some kids struggle with math, and now scientists have pinpointed some of the specific

thinking processes and brain regions that might explain why math is a little bit harder for some than others.

When given simple math problems, kids with math learning disabilities in a new study were less cautious about giving their answers and did not slow down after making errors compared with kids with typical math skills.

But these differences disappeared when those same kids were given problems with dots to represent numbers

instead of Arabic number symbols. Researchers reported these findings on February 9th in the

peer-reviewed Journal of Neuroscience. The idea that number symbols can be a challenge

is not new. Per Bert de Smet, an educational neuroscientist at K.U. Lujan in Belgium, who is not

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