We know a lot about how babies learn to talk, and youngsters learn to read. Now scientists are unraveling the earliest building blocks of math — and what children know about numbers as they begin ...

Rob Stein Scientists have for the first time established a link between a primitive, intuitive sense of numbers and performance in math classes, a finding that could lead to new ways to help children ...

Number sense can be described various ways: knowing what numbers mean, the ability to see patterns and relationships between numbers, how number systems work. In K-5 grades, Epler said, it would ...

Imagine hosting a party. You arrange snacks, curate a playlist and place a variety of beers in the refrigerator. Your first guest shows up, adding a six-pack before taking one bottle for himself. You ...

It’s easy for kids to see math as an isolated activity. They might think of math as just counting, or adding, or something they do for 40 minutes a day at school. If we want kids to think like ...

At the intersection of psychology and neuroscience is a phenomena called “number sense”—an intuition of the magnitude and relationships of numbers that is found in humans. In children and adolescents, ...

This call for manuscripts is requesting articles that address how to make sense of rational numbers in their myriad forms, including as fractions, ratios, rates, percentages, and decimals. Journal ...

The first draft of new math standards for Nebraska schools is a tweak, not an overhaul, of existing ones, according to state education officials. The draft, which went out for public comment this ...