Although math skills are considered notoriously hard to improve, researchers boosted kindergarteners' arithmetic performance simply by exercising their intuitive number sense with a quick computer ...

State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa & Co. are moving to recommend that teachers stop giving timed math quizzes lest they ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving ...

It’s widely accepted that teachers and parents should praise the effort kids make – rather than praise their innate ability – if they want their students and children to be successful. Similarly, a ...

In children with math anxiety, seeing numbers on a page stimulates the same part of the brain that would respond if they spotted a slithering snake or a creeping spider—math is that scary. Brain scans ...

Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...

If you have a preschooler and an Amazon device like an Echo, that’s a command you’ve probably uttered many times. If you’re like the adorable 2-year-old Zoe Turner, who got a taste of fame after a ...

Sometime in elementary school, you quit counting your fingers and just know the answer. Now scientists have put youngsters into brain scanners to find out why, and watched how the brain reorganizes ...

Are students’ math struggles during the COVID-19 pandemic completely unprecedented? Yes and no. Disruption in schools has also meant disruption in testing, so it’s been hard to pin down exactly how ...