Barbie caught a lot of flack back in the ’90s for declaring, “Math class is tough!” Today we find ourselves in the disorienting position of defending her. We recently got a note from an anonymous ...

How much of your school math do you actually remember?This quiz follows the structure of real classroom progression. It ...

Somewhere in your skull right now, there is no math department. No region of the brain exists solely to process equations, ...

Homeschooling math doesn’t have to mean endless worksheets—it can be hands-on, playful, and deeply engaging. From interactive games to real-life projects, families are finding creative ways to make ...

In a new study children who had not yet received arithmetic instruction, but had mastered verbal counting, were able to perform symbolic addition and subtraction, provided that only approximate ...

People often solve simple arithmetic problems, such as basic addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, in their ...

For many parents with young children, the bedtime routine is a firmly entrenched system involving a warm bath, a good book, a kiss and a hug. Toying with that equation borders on sacrilege, but Laura ...

Words matter. They indelibly colour our perceptions. Take the overdue revival of debate about the value of memorizing addition, subtraction and multiplication tables in school curriculums. The problem ...

Young children can crudely add and subtract numbers before they have learned the rules of arithmetic, a new study finds. Researchers presented five- and six-year-old children with problems such as, ...