They don’t teach kids any math skills until they arrive in preschool; now why is that? Well that is how educators, psychologists and scientists have always traditionally understood child development. It has always been thought that a child’s brain is simply not developed enough for even basic math until the child turns five. And wouldn’t you know it, the have decided now to see things differently, and not just about math either; they feel differently about teaching reading, geometry, what have you. And all of this comes from research in something called cognitive newer science. Perhaps the thing that threw off child experts before, was that all this while, they tried to teach little children math the traditional way, you know with pencils and math symbols for division.