Although math skills are considered notoriously hard to improve, Johns Hopkins University researchers boosted kindergartners' arithmetic performance simply by exercising their intuitive number sense ...

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 ...

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

The term "computer" used to be applied to humans that performed calculations by hand. It's still important for today's kids to still know how to, say, multiply without using their calculators (or ...

We need the best approaches we can find for kids in class now: Teachers and students can’t wait years for new research. Getty Images We need “new ways to measure how well our kids think, not how well ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In June a study of 6,250 kids published in the journal Child Development found that obese children feel sadder, lonelier and more anxious and that these feelings largely explain obese children's lower ...