A study shines a light on the remarkable arithmetic skills that young people acquire outside formal schooling. Education must ...

Young children can learn about math concepts through activities rooted in exploring the outdoors.

Kids don’t enjoy old-school learning, and we parents don’t enjoy long, tedious hours teaching our kids basic concepts. A ...

Danica McKellar’s new children’s book, I Love You 100: A Counting Book Full of Love, promises to teach kids about both math ...

By the time Xavier Cherkas was 5 years old, his college-educated mother, Ericka Lee, could no longer help him with his math ...

The average American student remains half a grade level behind pre-pandemic levels of achievement in both reading and math ...

If mental arithmetic has you in a panic, it might be bad news for your children. Parents who hate maths have children who are worse at maths, a study suggests. Up to 30 per cent of people have ...

Mathematics lessons are not popular in many Kenyan classrooms. Most learners struggle to grasp concepts, developing a phobia in the process. The KCSE results patterns, including last year’s, give a ...

New results from a national exam find that America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math.

Evidence from five large groups of children in India reveals that current school-based teaching practices are failing to bridge the gap. An innovative approach is needed to connect abstract maths ...

A study by MIT economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do well.

Photograph: Kind courtesy Tara Winstead/Pexels.com Being good at math on the go, as seen in Indian kids working in markets, does not often translate into classroom arithmetic, and vice versa ...