EdSource · From a juvenile facility to a college dorm room In education circles, early literacy — such as ensuring all children are reading by third grade — gets a lot of attention, and rightfully so.

Most people in the math education space agree that students need to be fluent with basic math facts. By the time kids are in ...

The Heising-Simons Foundation has awarded an 18-month, $500,000 research and development grant to the Mary E. Walsh Center for Thriving Children to advance early math learning for children and ...

What’s the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level? Educators have long debated the merits of these ...

It is just as natural for young children to think mathematically about their world as it is for them to use language. They develop mathematical knowledge as they manipulate objects and reason about ...

Mathematics anxiety is a feeling of tension and fear when dealing with numbers or performing calculations. It is a common form of academic anxiety: according to an OECD report, around 40% of students ...

Joy and enthusiasm provide essential components to build the motivation and perseverance needed to understand and succeed in math. Neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience research show correlations ...

A new study found young children are more likely to trust incorrect math advice from men than correct advice from women.

A thorough understanding of addition and subtraction requires knowledge of the inverse relation between these operations. According to Piaget (1952), any inverse relation poses a significant challenge ...

Overcrowding Impacts Studies: Many factors impact children's education. Let us explain the impact of the home and how it ...