Sudoku and other puzzles can incorporate play and critical thinking skills, while easing students into solving standard math ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

EdSource · This California Teacher of the Year embraces her dwarfism as a strength While policymakers, researchers and educators decide how our children learn math, parents don’t seem to be anywhere ...

The way we memorize information—such as a mathematical problem statement—reveals how we process it. A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in collaboration with CY Cergy Paris University (CYU) ...

Three years after calling for a reordering of elementary and middle school math curricula, the nation’s largest group of math teachers is urging a new approach to high school instruction, one that ...

Spatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at math at four years of age, finds a new study. It provides the earliest documented evidence for a relationship between spatial ...

A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine-appointed ad hoc committee will plan and organize a workshop that will bring together academic, industry, and government stakeholders to ...