Kids don’t enjoy old-school learning, and we parents don’t enjoy long, tedious hours teaching our kids basic concepts. A ...

In India, many kids who work in retail markets have good math skills. They can quickly perform a range of calculations to ...

While market-working kids in India excel at mental calculations, they struggle with textbook math — while schoolchildren fail ...

Intuitively solving a problem like multiplying 43 by 11, they might first multiply 43 by 10, and then add 43, reaching the ...

A recent study by prominent authors including Nobel laureates shows that Indian children working in markets excel in mental ...

Fourth and eighth graders also performed worse on the math portion of the 2024 test than they did before the pandemic. Fourth ...

America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little ...

New research findings reveal that parents’ anxiety about mathematics can have a negative impact on their children’s early ...

The study, conducted by experts from Loughborough University and three Italian universities, followed nearly 130 children over five years. Parents' levels of math anxiety were assessed when their ...

An initiative aimed at raising student achievement doesn't give students enough practice with foundational skills, some say.

The researchers spoke to hundreds of kids in the markets of Kolkata and Delhi and purchased the items they were selling in ...