In Boston public schools, 3, 4 and 5-year-olds are getting their first introduction to math. Before they walk through the kindergarten door, the “Building Blocks” curriculum is designed to encourage ...

Outdoor activities provide ample opportunities for math learning without any cost. Go on a nature walk where you ask your ...

A nontraditional teaching strategy is also helping teens at the southern Utah school connect with their fellow classmates.

Preschool children need to be able to go beyond the number three to grasp the true concept of counting, according to researchers. "We think that seeing that there are three objects doesn't have to ...

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 ...

When Jinjing Jenny Wang embarked on a two-year study to determine whether infants experience any cognitive benefits from watching someone count out loud on screen instead of in person, she had already ...

While there is always a good argument for trying to do better in schooling, the current disputes are concerned with issues that have little relevance to the kids who most urgently need better schools.