Last semester, I began my math history class with some Babylonian arithmetic. The mathematics we were doing was easy—multiplying and adding numbers, solving quadratic equations by completing the ...

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In this step-by-step activity video, we create a fun Bingo-style board game. In this step-by-step activity video, we create a fun Bingo-style board game while helping your child develop number and ...

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 ...

Teaching preschoolers to actually count numbers—not just recite them—will better prepare them for success in math once they start school, new research from the University of Missouri suggests.

What's the best language for learning math? Hint: You're not reading it. Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish use simpler number words and express math concepts more clearly than English, making it ...

Using fingers to count is an important part of learning maths in young children, researchers have found. They found that children who learned to count with their fingers, in combination with games ...