A group of middle school girls is puzzling over a pie chart about reading habits in the U.S. Their “math designer” stands at ...

One afternoon, Lori Anderson and her 7-year-old, Lindsey, spotted a small maple tree in La Mirada, California. Anderson asked her daughter how many leaves she thought were on the tree. Lindsey’s guess ...

Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number and double the other. After crossing out rows with ...

It’s possible that the most versatile piece of furniture I own is a pill-shaped chunk of foam. More specifically, it’s the Soft Coffee Table from House of Noa, a baby and kids’ brand that started out ...

The podcaster and mom of four shares her children with husband Jason Kelce Kayla Grant is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has previously appeared in ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

A simple finger trick for the 11 times table is helping secondary school students aged 12 to 16 improve mental arithmetic skills. By separating two-digit numbers, adding the digits, and inserting the ...

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...

The University of California at San Diego reported that students with below middle-school level math skills increased by "nearly thirtyfold" from 2020 to 2025. NuPenDekDee - stock.adobe.com What ...

Blake Griffin has been quite busy since announcing his retirement from pro basketball in April 2024. As the former Boston Celtics power forward powers through the days leading up to the holiday season ...

Though they did not all cross paths in Chapel Hill, every member of Kids Table, an indie pop band comprised of six UNC alumni, has a Carolina story. After finding each other in Washington, D.C. , ...

For many schoolchildren and adults alike, maths isn't something that comes naturally. It's often cited as one of the subjects which school kids dislike the most, and although some are whizzes at ...