We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming ...

As national math scores continue to drop, many parents are left wondering how to ignite a spark for math in their kids.

Low-income children's math knowledge in preschool was related to their later achievement -- but not all types of math knowledge were related equally, a new longitudinal study conducted in Tennessee ...

Parents teach young children to love books by reading to them, often at bedtime. Laura and John Overdeck love math, so they started giving their kids a word problem to solve each night before tucking ...

Adding math talk to story time at home is a winning equation for children’s math achievement, according to new research from the University of Chicago. Even children who used the app with their ...

Current research indicates that mathematical skills at the kindergarten and primary levels are a strong indicator of how your child will perform later in life. By allowing children to focus on problem ...

If the thought of calculating a tip at a restaurant makes you nervous, then you are not alone. Math anxiety is common worldwide. Math anxiety can lead to poor performance and also deter people from ...

A classroom intervention that costs just $9 for each child can deliver a three-month boost to children's math skills. The initiative also showed promise in closing the gap between children from ...

Kinga Morsanyi received funding from the Royal Society to carry out this research. Carlo Tomasetto received funding from The Royal Society to carry out this research. Paddy O'Connor and Veronica ...

Joy and enthusiasm provide essential components to build the motivation and perseverance needed to understand and succeed in math. Neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience research show correlations ...

Over the course of your life, how many times have you heard someone declare they’re “not a math person”? Probably too many to count (no pun intended). Whenever I hear someone say this, I immediately ...

Americans are lacking in confidence when it comes to math. Restaurants now print the suggested tip on receipts because so many customers struggle to calculate it — an exercise that draws on 4th ...