A by-the-numbers look at our education system shows that the traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students’ needs and more time better spend can help. Expanding learning time, or ELT, ...

Children who are skilled in understanding how shapes fit together to make recognizable objects also have an advantage when it comes to learning the number line and solving math problems, research at ...

A new study finds that in a Bolivian rainforest society, children learn to count just like in the United States, but on a delayed timetable. American children learn the meanings of number words ...

Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the ...

Playing number board games for just ten minutes helps young children build strong early math skills supporting economic ...