In India, many kids who work in retail markets have good math skills: They can quickly perform a range of calculations to complete transactions. But as a new study shows, these kids often perform much worse on the same kinds of problems as they are taught in the classroom. This happens even though many of these students still attend school or attended school through 7th or 8th grades.Conversely, the study also finds, Indian students who are still enrolled in school and don’t have jobs do better on school-type math problems,…
