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 ...

"It seems schools are under pressure to provide excellent results all the time, and that 90% isn't good enough." Mr Drew said the school was under pressure after receiving a requi ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump is preparing to revamp the Department of Education after math, reading scores show stunning lows, ...

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.

While market-working kids in India excel at mental calculations, they struggle with textbook math — while schoolchildren fail ...

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 ...

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 ...