For decades, educators have assumed that learning arithmetic in school helps students solve real-world problems. Yet, a new study published in Nature by a team of researchers including Nobel laureates ...

This study was designed to test whether the criterion based on the IQ-achievement discrepancy is useful in the definition of arithmetic learning disabilities (ALD). A sample of children with ALD, ...

Do typical arithmetic problems hinder learning of mathematical equivalence? Second and third graders (7 — 9 years old; N = 80) received lessons on mathematical equivalence either with or without ...

Young children can crudely add and subtract numbers before they have learned the rules of arithmetic, a new study finds. Researchers presented five- and six-year-old children with problems such as, ...

The system of learning arithmetic with just a set of short bed cahains mounted on a wooden stand is being adopted by many schools in the Chennai. On Montessori’s 142nd birth anniversary on Friday, ...

Maths of Bikes No Tour de France is truly complete without the question of drugs being raised, or without the spectacle of tens of bikes tumbling over in a massive pile up. But bikes are in fact ...

Quentin Cooper explores the phenomenon of a bicycle's stability and meets the experts who claim to understand it. No Tour de France is truly complete without the question of drugs being raised, or ...