A recent study found that five-year-olds are able to perform simple addition and subtraction when they are given visual problems, like pictures of candies. The children scored well above chance, even though they hadn't had any formal math training. This leads experts to believe children are naturally able to work with numbers. And since I'm completely inept at it, I'm not sure what that says about me.

The problems weren't just "two plus two" either: the numbers ranged from five to 98. The researchers hope to use the results of the study to find ways to better teach children formal math. You mean, like showing them real world applications for math problems? If you gave me some pictures of candy to work with, I'd probably be much more attentive than I was trying to figure out which train is gonna arrive at the station first, like they did in the old word problems we used to have to do.

The study was conducted at Harvard. You'll probably see my even-fingered child there in twelve years.