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Children who count on their fingers between ages 4 and 6 1/2 have better addition skills by age 7 than those who don’t use their fingers, suggesting that finger counting is an important stepping stone ...

Here is another compilation of Good e-Reader Top 10 Apps for Google Android, this time targeting kids and education. All the apps mentioned here have one thing in common: all of them are designed to ...

A few years after Louisiana pushed schools to adopt a new, systemic approach to reading instruction, education officials want to revamp the way students learn math. Last month, the state emerged as an ...

New national test scores show a bleak picture of American education in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fourth and eighth graders' literacy skills dipped – once again – on the U.S. Department ...

BOSTON (SHNS/WWLP) – As studies show that American students are falling behind their peers in other countries in math and science, a new local poll shows about one-third of Bay State parents are ...

Kids today live very different lives than youngsters did in previous generations. With technology permeating every part of life, there are so many things that they do differently, or don’t have to do ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero, ...

When Victoria Beckham revealed she suffers from dyscalculia, she brought attention to an often undiagnosed math learning disability. Dyscalculia is an often overlooked math learning disability that ...

In math, Algebra 1 is a make-or-break course. The class is the gateway to high school math, and struggling to complete it can close off those higher-level pathways—and even jeopardize students’ ...