Struggling to help your child with their homework? The older they get, the more difficult the assignments become, and for many people, math is the hardest subject to tackle. If just thinking about how ...

Researchers say this playful activity isn’t just entertaining; it helps kids build lasting skills in counting, recognizing ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

Do mathematical skills that children acquire in the classroom transfer to real-world settings — and vice versa? Evidence from five large groups of children in India reveals that current school-based ...

Quick fixes like rewards and sticker charts sometimes make math tolerable for a few days. But, before long, the math battles begin all over again. No wonder some families end up doing less and less ...

This article was originally published in The Texas Tribune. DALLAS — In Eran McGowan’s math class, students try to teach each other. If a student is brave enough to share how they solved a math ...

Kinga Morsanyi receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (Centre for Early Mathematics Learning; ES/W002914/1). Carlo Tomasetto does not work for, consult, own shares in or ...

Fear of numbers Maths anxiety may start early isn’t directly genetic and can be reduced with the right mindset support and ...

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