I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years, I noticed that students were always interested in the history of ...

In India, many kids who work in retail markets have good math skills. They can quickly perform a range of calculations to ...

A recent study by prominent authors including Nobel laureates shows that Indian children working in markets excel in mental ...

New research findings reveal that parents' anxiety about mathematics can have a negative impact on their children's early ...

The researchers spoke to hundreds of kids in the markets of Kolkata and Delhi and purchased the items they were selling in ...

Researchers have long known that as school tasks become more difficult student motivation can decrease as they encounter more ...

Findings of a new study published in Nature journal show that working children excel at market calculations but struggle with textbook problems in Indian schools, while children in schools work well ...

A study highlights the divide between intuitive math skills used by Indian kids in markets and the formal methods taught in ...

While the highest-performing students started to regain lost ground, lower-performing students fell further behind.

All children covered in the study were under the age of 17 years, with most in the age group of 13 to 15 years. Further, the ...

Call it a post-COVID push of the good kind. West Virginia's fourth-and eighth-graders in 2024 continued to inch steady improvements in reading and math scores, despite big losses wrought by the ...