Fun, challenging riddle puzzles are a fantastic way to engage your mind, practice thinking skills, and develop problem-solving skills. Many puzzles have surprises, clever wordplay, or hidden patterns ...

Children hold insights and wisdom in important parts of life that adults often lose, forget, or have to put aside in the service of other adulting tasks. Kids are often better at being fully immersed ...

When fifth-grade teacher Ana Sanchez handed out the math pop quiz Tuesday before lunch and recess, none of the students were excited. No talking allowed, Sanchez reminded her students at Mount Rose ...

One of the most common old-fashioned tricks kids today are not taught in school that would save them a lot of time is the multiplying by 9s finger hack. This finger trick allows people to multiply any ...

Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...

COWARD — After a year of teacher training on literacy, updated curriculum standards and new textbooks, reading appears to have improved among elementary and middle school students in South Carolina.

COWARD, S.C. (WIS) - South Carolina education leaders are touting big improvements in the classroom, despite new test results showing fewer than two-thirds of students in the state are reading at ...

The state’s new “Math Counts Act” requires Iowa schools to start screening students’ math skills three times each year. Schools have been testing students’ literacy skills three times a year for ...

Students in grades K–8 are invited to a “Family Math Fun” festival on Sunday, Sept. 28 at Hope College’s Bultman Student Center. Hosted by the college’s mathematics and statistics department, this ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...