Catherine Attard received a grant from Financial Literacy Australia in 2014 to investigate the use of financial literacy education to improve student engagement with mathematics in primary schools ...

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 reorganizes ...

All those long multiplication tables. Timed tests and “mad minutes” of worksheet problem-solving. Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the heart of ...

If you have a preschooler and an Amazon device like an Echo, that’s a command you’ve probably uttered many times. If you’re like the adorable 2-year-old Zoe Turner, who got a taste of fame after a ...

Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...

Imagine you had to take an art class in which you were taught how to paint a fence or a wall, but you were never shown the paintings of the great masters, and you weren’t even told that such paintings ...

Remember quaking at the thought of algebra? A new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience looks at kids who have math anxiety and finds that tutoring can significantly reduce their ...

The sooner kids stop counting on their fingers, the better they are at math later in life. Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine found that when kids begin processing mental math, the ...

Does math make you a little nervous? You're in the majority. The phrase "number anxiety" was first coined by researchers back in the 1950s. By some estimates, as high as 93 percent of Americans feel ...