Over 350 children from 30 African countries gathered in Kigali on Saturday, October 18, for the 2nd Shenmo Africa Cup Abacus Mental Math Olympiad, a fast-paced, high-energy arithmetic competition.

Much of the way math is taught was developed before we had neuroscientific insight into how the brain actually learns.

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines that include recommending teachers stop quizzing ...

Children’s math negativity adversely impacts their dedication and successful learning. Here, we’ll suggest interventions to ...

It's exam season in Australia. Year 12 students are sitting final exams, while university and younger school students also face end-of-year assessments.

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. — Stacie Canfield is the math department chair at Central High School and she’s finding new and unique ways to get her students excited about numbers. When she was in high school ...

After Mr Jason Wang’s daughter struggled with maths, she was diagnosed with dyscalculia, a learning difficulty affecting number understanding, similar to dyslexia. Dyscalculia, affecting 3 to 7 per ...

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Language learning apps like Duolingo are useful, but they have their limits. They're ideal for getting started with a new language, beefing up vocabulary, practicing skills, and even having fun ...

The Education Department has released a new Nation's Report Card. High school students, especially 12th graders, are reading and learning math and science at historic lows, according to a new report ...

Baltimore — Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying ...