Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help their children with math homework? Those days predated the Common Core ...

Struggling to help your child with their homework? The older they get, the more difficult the assignments become, and for many people, math is the hardest subject to tackle. If just thinking about how ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Preschool children who engage in math activities at home with their parents not only improve their math skills, but also their general vocabulary, according to research from ...

Adding math talk to story time at home is a winning equation for children’s math achievement, according to new research from the University of Chicago. Even children who used the app with their ...

Children with developmental disabilities, or who struggle with vocabulary as toddlers, are at risk of developing persistent math difficulties—and boosting a child’s reading skills, ensuring access to ...

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page worksheets in addition, subtraction, ...

With the adoption of the Common Core state standards in mathematics, the biggest complaints I hear are from parents. They struggle to help their child with math homework since it looks so different ...

Low-income children's math knowledge in preschool was related to their later achievement -- but not all types of math knowledge were related equally, a new longitudinal study conducted in Tennessee ...

Over the course of your life, how many times have you heard someone declare they’re “not a math person”? Probably too many to count (no pun intended). Whenever I hear someone say this, I immediately ...

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 ...

How strongly children identify with math (their math 'self-concept') can be used to predict how high they will score on a standardized test of math achievement, according to a new study. How strongly ...