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 ...

Meet the former classroom instructional coach in charge of the state's new effort to turn around math performance in public ...

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 ...

Parents who are anxious about math can still help their children learn the subject when given the right tools, according to research from current and former University of Chicago scholars. Following ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help ...

As children learn basic arithmetic, they gradually switch from solving problems by counting on their fingers to pulling facts from memory. The shift comes more easily for some kids than for others, ...

Approach calculations with curiosity, playfulness and a sense of adventure. Avoid too much homework. By Malia Wollan “The worst thing to do is create situations of pressure, intimidation, high emotion ...

Even as more children across the United States head back to in-person school - some for the first time in nearly a year - hybrid and virtual models mean that in many cases, kids are doing at least ...

Everyone knows that children who are not reading at grade level by 3rd grade are fated to struggle academically throughout school. Concerns about early literacy skills are justified because reading ...

Longitudinal relations between parents' math anxiety at 3 years of age and children's mathematical development and math anxiety from 3 to 8 years of age. Credit: Journal of Experimental Child ...

Children born very preterm (<32 wk) are at high risk for mathematics learning difficulties that are out of proportion to other academic and cognitive deficits. However, the etiology of mathematics ...

Extremely preterm (EP, <26 wk gestation) children have been observed to have poor academic achievement in comparison to their term-born peers, especially in mathematics. This study investigated ...