Math struggles in kids may stem from brains that have a harder time learning from mistakes—not just understanding numbers.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Hello! Today we're going to learn to order some numbers. This is a number line. It helps us space out ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. This is a number line. Hmm. Where should these numbers go? Let's start with the number 50. It's right ...

Parents typically start teaching their children to count at an early age: one fish two fish, three little pigs, five little monkeys, and so on. Research has shown that kids don’t fully understand the ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

Most people think that only people can understand numbers, but that's not true. Many animals can naturally figure out how much something costs, see patterns, and make decisions based on simple math.

This is part of a series of essays during the COVID-19 pandemic designed to help journalists and all public writers achieve what I have been calling “civic clarity.” That quality in prose comes from ...