“It All Adds Up,” is an effort to help WKAR-area families build kids’ math skills. Through this effort, WKAR aims to boost math learning at home – and everywhere – by providing PBS KIDS resources for ...

We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming ...

As national math scores continue to drop, many parents are left wondering how to ignite a spark for math in their kids.

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

Over the course of your life, how many times have you heard someone declare they’re “not a math person”? Probably too many to count (no pun intended). Whenever I hear someone say this, I immediately ...

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 ...

Students in the U.S. trail children in other countries when it comes to science, technology, engineering, and math (aka STEM), at least according to international benchmark tests like the Programme ...

Math is all around us: the music you listen to, the vehicles you drive and even the food you bake can all be represented mathematically. But for most kids - and many adults - the word math evokes ...

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 ...

Recently, the National Center for Education Statistics released the Nation’s Report Card of student progress in reading and math. These scores are based on the National Assessment of Educational ...