What is the best way to help poor schoolchildren succeed at math? A study now sheds light on the ways preschool activities may -- or may not -- help children develop cognitive skills. What is the best ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story misspelled the name of Julie Sarama, a researcher who has developed strategies for building the mathematical skills of preschool students. A pair of New ...

Children are natural mathematicians and explore maths concepts from an early age, negotiating space, filling containers, building with blocks and problem-solving. At Rachel Keeling, mathematics ...

An early childhood professor at Florida International University has uploaded three videos showing parents how to teach their preschooler about math using fun, simple games. “Pre-K is an extremely ...

Executive functions play an important role in early maths, says Rosemary O’Connor, from a University of Oxford team who have developed a programme to embed these crucial mental skills into fun maths ...

CHICAGO—Scores of preschool and kindergarten teachers across the city are embedding math concepts into daily classroom activities, in a promising new program that gives students a foundation for more ...

Ready to practise recognising numbers and counting? Here’s a great early years education game to play with children if they are in their first year of primary school or want to have a taste of what ...

Preschool maths games can boost children’s mathematical intuition, according to a large-scale classroom study in India. Moira Dillon at New York University in New York City and her colleagues studied ...

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