Children who enter school behind in math have a slower rate of improvement throughout early elementary school …

„Children who enter school behind in math have a slower rate of improvement throughout early elementary school, effectively widening the achievement gap with their higher performing peers.“
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Nicole R. Scalise u. a., Symbolic Magnitude Understanding Predicts Preschoolers’ Later Addition Skills. In: Journal of Cognition and Development (2021), 22:2, S. 185.