The finding that children whose first language is Chinese learn to count at a younger age than children whose first language is English suggests that:
a. more children in China come from middle-income families than children in the United States.
b. the way that numbers are encoded as words has an effect on certain mathematical skills.
c. mathematical skills are primarily influenced by environment, rather than genetics.
d. children in China are born superior with neurological networks that process mathematical thinking than are children in the United States.
B
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