Parents teach young children to love books by reading to them, often at bedtime. Laura and John Overdeck love math, so they started giving their kids a word problem to solve each night before tucking ...

Math is all around us: the music you listen to, the vehicles you drive and even the food you bake can all be represented mathematically. But for most kids - and many adults - the word math evokes ...

Earlier this month, Barbara Oakley, engineering professor at Oakland University and author of “Learning How to Learn" published an opinion piece called "Make Your Daughter Practice Math. She'll Thank ...

You may draw examples from Miguel Secillano, Terence Tao, or even from Shakuntala Devi, all you want – but if getting your kid to sit with their math homework is nothing short of a challenge for you, ...

A spike in blood pressure. A racing heart rate. Sweaty palms. For many adults, this is what they feel when faced with difficult math. But for kids, math anxiety isn't just a feeling, it can affect ...

The ultimate motivator for kids to do their best in math isn't the promise of rewards or desire to make a parent proud, recent research reveals. For 55% of kids, it's proving to themselves that "they ...

As you sit there trying to calculate that grocery bill or balance your checkbook in your head in frustration as your children watch, you may be giving them their own anxiety about doing math. A new ...