Math struggles in kids may stem from brains that have a harder time learning from mistakes—not just understanding numbers.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Hello! Today we're going to learn to order some numbers. This is a number line. It helps us space out ...

Children begin to understand number place value by age 3—much earlier than previously believed, according to a new study in Child Development— and they may be ready for more substantive math lessons ...

Children who are skilled in understanding how shapes fit together to make recognizable objects also have an advantage when it comes to learning the number line and solving math problems, research at ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. This is a number line. Hmm. Where should these numbers go? Let's start with the number 50. It's right ...

A study of people in Nicaragua has concluded that humans need language in order to understand large numbers. Members of the group were born deaf and never learned Spanish or a formal sign language, ...

This is part of a series of essays during the COVID-19 pandemic designed to help journalists and all public writers achieve what I have been calling “civic clarity.” That quality in prose comes from ...