Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about mathematics. "You and your daughter can have fun throwing eggs off a building and making papier-mâché volcanoes, but ...

Although math skills are considered notoriously hard to improve, Johns Hopkins University researchers boosted kindergartners' arithmetic performance simply by exercising their intuitive number sense ...

Parents teach young children to love books by reading to them, often at bedtime. Laura and John Overdeck love math, so they started giving their kids a word problem to solve each night before tucking ...

Do you ever feel out of the loop while helping your child with math homework? Elementary school math has changed quite a bit over the years, and for parents, it can sometimes feel like a whole new ...

Equipping kids with good Math + Science background Ann Metzger, the Co-Director from the Carnegie Science Center and Nancy Bunt from the Math and Science Collaborative talk about the campaign to teach ...

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 ...

For anyone who has ever fled in the face of calculating the tip, it’s no surprise that math can be stressful. But what may come as a surprise is that math-caused anxiety isn’t always something we’re ...

All those long multiplication tables. Timed tests and “mad minutes” of worksheet problem-solving. Fluency drills. Somehow, getting kids to know their basic math facts continues to be at the heart of ...

Math is everywhere, and everyone can be good at it! Use these six tips from Cyberchase to help your child develop positive attitudes toward math. Being wrong can help you be right. A lot of us feel ...

Does math make you a little nervous? You're in the majority. The phrase "number anxiety" was first coined by researchers back in the 1950s. By some estimates, as high as 93 percent of Americans feel ...

A mere one in five (22%) seniors tested as "proficient" in math, and just a third (35%) in reading. Seventyfour - stock.adobe.com Here’s one more reason to detest teacher unions and other special ...