Board games boost youngsters' maths skills, according to new research. Children learn to count as they move pieces along a numbered path in games such as snakes and ladders, say scientists. The study ...

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WestEd, a nonprofit that helps education companies research and develop their products for feasibility, usability, implementation and efficacy, has been awarded a nearly $3.5 million grant from the ...

Two programs for teaching mathematics in the early grades—Math Expressions and Saxon Math—emerge as winners in early findings released last week from a large-scale federal experiment that pits four ...