Along with reciting the days of the week and the alphabet, adults often practice reciting numbers with young children. Now, new research from the University of Missouri suggests reciting numbers is not enough to prepare children ...
Social Sciences
Nov 8, 2012
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Children who are homeless or move frequently have chronically lower math and reading skills than other low-income students who don't move as much.
Social Sciences
Oct 30, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Women who excel in male-dominated science, technology, engineering and mathematic fields are often unjustly stereotyped as unfeminine.
Social Sciences
Apr 25, 2012
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(AP) -- Strange secrets hide in numbers. For instance, an orange used car is least likely to be a lemon. This particular unexpected finding came to light courtesy of a data jockey who goes by the Internet alias SirGuessalot, ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 15, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- The world often breaks down into numbers and regular patterns that form predictable cycles. And the sooner children can inherently grasp these patterns, the more confident and comfortable they will be with the ...
Social Sciences
Apr 13, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Teaching children mathematics at a young age may be as simple as helping them see how math is all around them.
Social Sciences
Feb 16, 2012
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A new study published today in the journal PLoS ONE reports that the precision with which preschoolers estimate quantities, prior to any formal education in mathematics, predicts their mathematics ability in elementary school, ...
Social Sciences
Sep 14, 2011
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We accept that some people are born with a talent for music or art or athletics. But what about mathematics? Do some of us just arrive in the world with better math skills than others?
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Aug 8, 2011
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A new study published today in the journal Child Development (e-publication ahead of print) finds that having a poor "gut sense" of numbers can lead to a mathematical learning disability and difficulty in achieving basic ...
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2011
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Math problems make more than a few students - and even teachers - sweat, but new brain research is providing insights into the earliest causes of the anxiety so often associated with mathematics.
Social Sciences
May 19, 2011
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