Math struggles in kids may stem from brains that have a harder time learning from mistakes—not just understanding numbers.

Hyesang Chang and colleagues, from Stanford University, explored why some children struggle to learn math compared to their peers in a new JNeurosci paper. Children selected which numbers were bigger ...

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 ...

FSU hosted its 11th annual Math Fun Day. Nearly 600 parents and kids strolled through the open house math festival on campus, ...

Third grade teacher Eran McGowan works through math problems with his students at the Eddie Bernice Johnson STEM Academy in Dallas on Feb. 5. (Azul Sordo For The Texas Tribune, Azul Sordo For The ...

“It All Adds Up,” is an effort to help WKAR-area families build kids’ math skills. Through this effort, WKAR aims to boost math learning at home – and everywhere – by providing PBS KIDS resources for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Sometime in elementary school, you quit counting your fingers and just know the answer. Now scientists have put youngsters into brain scanners to find out why, and watched how the brain ...

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, ...