Predictions of adult poverty are now so accurate that up to nine in 10 youngsters destined for a lifetime of disadvantage can be spotted and helped before they leave primary school, it says.
Even a simple copying test that gauges a child’s ability to replicate shapes and patterns at the age of five is an extremely accurate predictor of later success in school and early adulthood according to the study, by the Institute of Education at the University of London.
The great man of art and science was a famously good draftsman with an apparently perfect eye for shape. The short, fun maths test above will have you estimating the positions of parallelogram vertices, centrepoints of circles, midpoints of angles and more. It will test your knowlege of geometry and your natural sense of space and shape, just watch your mouse doesn’t slip.
If you’re looking for something a little more useful, but no less challenging, you should check out any one of the 142 animated Shape and Space lessons in Maths-Whizz…
