Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an ...

A by-the-numbers look at our education system shows that the traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students’ needs and more time better spend can help. Expanding learning time, or ELT, ...

New research conducted with deaf people in Nicaragua shows that language may play an important role in learning the meanings of numbers. New research conducted with deaf people in Nicaragua shows that ...

A new study finds that in a Bolivian rainforest society, children learn to count just like in the United States, but on a delayed timetable. American children learn the meanings of number words ...

Learning numbers in a European language has probably affected your early maths ability. It turns out there are better ways to count. If I asked you to write down the number “ninety-two”, you wouldn’t ...

Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the ...