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Parents who hate math often fear raising kids who will feel the same. 对数学感到头痛的父母常常害怕这样一件事情：教育同样厌恶这个科目的孩子。 Tammy Jolley is one of them - 'a horrible math-phobic,' she says. After struggling through algebra and statistics in high school and college, helping her 9-year-old son Jake with math homework makes her 'feel like saying, 'Aaarghh, this is hard! I know why you don't get it,' ' says the Madison, Ala., state-court official. Instead, she forces herself to encourage Jake. 塔米·乔利（Tammy Jolley）是阿拉巴马州麦迪逊县（Madison）的一名法院官员，她说自己就是患有“严重数学恐惧症”人群中的一员。在高中、大学时代好不容易熬着学完了代数学与统计学的课程后，乔利现在又得给自己九岁的儿子杰克辅导数学作业了。她说，这么做会让她“想要发出这样的感慨，‘啊哈，数学真难，我知道你为什么学不明白了。’”但乔利还是硬着头皮、强迫自己去鼓励儿子学数学。 Ongoing research is shedding new light on the importance of math to children's success. Math skill at kindergarten entry is an even stronger predictor of later school achievement than reading skills or the ability to pay attention, according to a 2007 study in the journal Developmental Psychology. 目前正在进行的研究进一步揭示了数学对孩子成功的重要性。2007年刊发于《发展心理学》（Developmental Psychology）期刊的一篇研究论文指出，学生在幼儿园时表现出来的数学能力是他们在日后学习中能否取得好成绩的一个预报器，其预示作用甚至超过了集中注意力的能力和阅读能力。 | 
