In many cases, parents or school administrators push back against a child’s deserved bad grades or their need to repeat a ...

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The University of California San Diego has reported a staggering 30-fold increase in the number of students unable to do ...

Greg Duncan before delivering the keynote address at the Silicon Valley Education Foundation’s forum on early math. Credit: Lillian Mongeau, EdSource Today A study showing that early math skills are ...

Are you bad at math, or do you just think you’re bad at math? Researchers reported on Monday that math skills only lead to certain benefits in life when they’re also paired with confidence in those ...

A score of 4 or 5 on the Calculus AB test gives credit for MATH 1510: Calculus I and places the student in MATH 1520: Calculus II. A score of 4 or 5 on the Calculus BC test gives credit for MATH 1520: ...

Although he rarely says a thing, all of the silent wondering “What if?” by Curious George that leads to disaster, adventure, and fun, is rubbing off on children. A new study of the PBS KIDS television ...

This week, the media picked up on a recently published article in Developmental Science by researchers at Johns Hopkins (Libertus, Fiegneson, and Halbreda, 2011) suggesting that children as young as ...

From more than 50 years of teaching experience, I’ve learned that elementary school teachers are typically more comfortable teaching reading. They delight in watching students become readers. They ...

Parents who excel at math produce children who excel at math. This is according to a recent study that shows a distinct transfer of math skills from parent to child. The study specifically explored ...

Psychologist Véronique Izard discusses a study that suggests Amazonian villagers with no math schooling are just as equipped to solve basic geometry problems as math-trained adults, and cognitive ...