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

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 ...

The hall of St Xavier’s School was abuzz. The air was charged with excitement on the afternoon of September 2. Students from various schools in and around the Valley had gathered to witness the Third ...

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 ...

Kids who count on their fingers between 4 and 6 years old have better addition skills by 7 than those who don’t use their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last year Kyle Ledoux got C's in math, but this year he's earning A's. The Morgan Park Middle School seventh-grader attributes it to a new math curriculum his class helped test for the district: a ...

A new study finds that parents who show anxiety about math can cause the same nervousness in their children, resulting in lower test scores. As you sit there trying to calculate that grocery bill or ...

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 ...