To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems. But students who can recall these foundational facts in isolation often struggle to use them ...

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 problem, they stand up in front of the other third graders and say ...

Do your children struggle with adding and subtracting numbers and basic calculations while others around them do it naturally? The problem is hidden in the brain and has nothing to do with children's ...

Here is another compilation of Good e-Reader Top 10 Apps for Google Android, this time targeting kids and education. All the apps mentioned here have one thing in common: all of them are designed to ...

Multiplication and long division rarely get pep rallies. But Michaela Sicuranza, a 5th grade teacher at Sinking Springs Elementary, in York, Pa., thinks building an exciting, competitive identity ...

A study by 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. In India, many kids who work in ...

Ubiquitous screens, classroom chaos, a dearth of qualified teachers: The reasons our children are struggling in math class ...

It is just as natural for young children to think mathematically about their world as it is for them to use language. They develop mathematical knowledge as they manipulate objects and reason about ...

In education circles, early literacy — such as ensuring all children are reading by third grade — gets a lot of attention, and rightfully so. Early reading skills have been shown to have a profound ...