Elementary school students who learn to calculate using a mental abacus tend to perform better on math tests than their peers ...

From haikus to math journals and comic strips, there are major benefits when writing is infused into the math curriculum.

California fourth graders have scored lower than their peers in most states on a national test. On California's 2025 state ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. This blog was updated on June 24, 2026 to clarify a statistic ...

Setting aside time in the school day to teach students social-emotional skills, such as emotional regulation and perspective-taking, can substantially boost students’ grade-point averages and ...

A father of two elementary school-aged kids created an AI tutor to quiz them until they felt confident to do well on their ...

The Applied Mathematics Community and Learning Center, opened last month after a summer-long renovation, invites students to collaborate, hang out and learn In one corner of the common room, Ben ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world, we’re forever crunching calculations in pursuit of deeper ...