Researchers in the Purdue University Department of Human Development and Family Science (HDFS) want young children to go cuckoo for mathematics. Postdoctoral researcher Salvador R. Vazquez and ...

From grocery shopping to storytelling, these everyday tricks help children overcome their fear of maths — without worksheets ...

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 ...

International comparative studies on mathematics teaching and learning often provide unitary and harmonious images of classroom practices. This paper aims to complement those studies by describing the ...

Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means tabletop games ...

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Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 59, No. 1/3, Teaching Situations as Object of Research: Empirical Studies within Theoretical Perspectives (2005), pp. 269-298 (30 pages) The purpose of this ...

There's new evidence that girls start out with the same math abilities as boys. A study of 104 children from ages 3 to 10 found similar patterns of brain activity in boys and girls as they engaged in ...