In 1970, about 1 in 20 children were affected by obesity; today, it's 1 in 5. Dr. Jonathan LaPook looks at programs aimed at ...

In the minds of many people, math lives in the classroom—on blackboards, in textbooks, and in tests. New research from Amber ...

Help make math learning fun and easy this summer with these three outdoor activities you can do with just a few household items — and some mud, of course.

From counting sheep to cows jumping over the moon, bedtime is full of math traditions and opportunities to use math talk. Try ...

The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years ...

Federal survey data suggests that the amount of math homework assigned to fourth and eighth grade students, in particular, has been steadily declining for the past decade. Credit: Stanislaw ...

School may almost be out for summer, but that doesn't mean the lessons should end with the final bell. In fact, summer may be the best season to teach kids the financial skills they will need for a ...

Speaking at WSJ Opinion Live in Washington, D.C., Free Expression columnist Meghan Cox Gurdon and editors Emma Camp and Mary Julia Koch discuss religion, patriotism and the advent of AI. Photo: WSJ ...

Some kids struggle with math. Now, scientists have pinpointed some of the specific thinking processes and brain regions that might explain why math is a little harder for some than others. When given ...

A new Stanford study suggests math struggles may be about more than numbers. Children who had difficulty with math were less likely to adjust their thinking after making mistakes during number ...

Like all social norms and institutions in our culture, schools and education have drastically changed over the last few decades. Obviously, there’s the emergence of technology and screens that have ...

The study suggests that children actively use gender stereotypes to guide how they learn. Young children trust math advice from men, even when it is wrong. A new study from Rutgers University–New ...