What is the best way to help poor schoolchildren succeed at math? A study now sheds light on the ways preschool activities may -- or may not -- help children develop cognitive skills. What is the best ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story misspelled the name of Julie Sarama, a researcher who has developed strategies for building the mathematical skills of preschool students. A pair of New ...

Outdoors is an excellent context for exploring maths. Enabling children to collect their own resources, and use movement as part of the learning, helps them to understand and embed the concepts.

Executive functions play an important role in early maths, says Rosemary O’Connor, from a University of Oxford team who have developed a programme to embed these crucial mental skills into fun maths ...

Preschool maths games can boost children’s mathematical intuition, according to a large-scale classroom study in India. Moira Dillon at New York University in New York City and her colleagues studied ...