Children often struggle to memorize multiplication facts, as Hechinger reported, but research suggests it may be worth the effort. Cognitive scientists say that learning your times tables by heart ...

It is just as natural for young children to think mathematically about their world as it is for them to use language. They develop mathematical knowledge as they manipulate objects and reason about ...

Student work posted in an elementary school before the pandemic shows the “partial product” method of solving a multiplication problem, one of many methods students have learned with Common Core.

Did you know kids’ tabletop games don’t have to be dismally tedious choices like Chutes & Ladders or Candy Land? (Just thinking about Candy Land makes my eyelids feel heavy.) And, you might find this ...

Diana Leyva received funding from the Brady Education Foundation. Diana Leyva is an Associate Professor of Psychology and a Research Scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) at ...

I meet a lot of parents whose kids are still young, sometimes not even school age, who are already convinced that their kids are not cut out for careers in math, tech or science. One mom told me that ...