According to research by the author of Playful Interactions Dr. Karyn Purvis, scientists have determined that it takes approximately 400 repetitions to create a new synapse in the brain — unless it’s ...

Susan Hobart asked this week’s “question-of-the-week": What strategies help math facts stick besides the old “drill the skill” and, if someone is not proficient at addition facts, can learning ...

Unlike Esa Helttula's other apps, which allow kids to practice specific skills through a no-nonsense kind of interface, Esa's latest app, for the iPad, gives kids a playground of sorts to play around ...

Third-grade multiplication doesn’t have to be a struggle—game-based learning is making it more engaging than ever. From ski races to candy shop arrays, interactive tools blend fun with skill-building.

“Come see this work,” she said with a huge smile on her face. I traveled down the hallway to the 3rd grade teacher’s classroom where she had a stack of student artwork ready for me to view. “I am just ...

There was a time that I thought that understanding math was more useful than memorizing it. A certain amount of memorization is essential, especially for lower-level math. For example, you need to ...

Sometime in elementary school, you quit counting your fingers and just know the answer. Now scientists have put youngsters into brain scanners to find out why, and watched how the brain reorganizes ...

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A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for TheAtlantic.com ...