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 ...

HAVE sum of this, Mum and Dad. It is all very well telling kids to get down to their maths homework on a gloomy winter’s evening. But how would YOU do? Please ...

City test scores soared this year, with some kids crediting easier tests, and others pointing to a regular diet of practice and drills. “They stopped giving us free-time periods,” said Matt’s ...

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 ...

High school students who are interested in mathematics in Central Pennsylvania had the opportunity Tuesday to put their ...

All those long multiplication tables. Timed tests and “mad minutes” of worksheet problem-solving. Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the heart of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...