From board games to digital apps, research shows that playful learning can significantly improve children’s math abilities, memory, and confidence. Whether it’s strategic puzzles or story-driven ...

From puzzles and board games to STEM toys, research shows playful activities can give young children a strong foundation in ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - America’s children are not scoring well in math, and researchers have been working to uncover how kids best learn the subject — and how that can be put into practice in the classroom ...

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Social and emotional learning is crucial to childhood development. Unfortunately, children in areas affected by conflict and disaster are more likely to miss out on critical learning opportunities.

Teaching children to use spatial reasoning cues could help them understand how numbers relate to one another, a fundamental concept in early math education. Two Lynch School researchers are exploring ...

With the return to school comes a return to students sitting at their desks for hours every day—and teachers’ subsequent challenge of managing those fidgeting students. There has been considerable ...

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page worksheets in addition, subtraction, ...