A few weeks ago I (Jo Boaler) was working in my Stanford office when the silence of the room was interrupted by a phone call. A mother called me to report that her 5-year-old daughter had come home ...

Counting on fingers really does help youngsters improve their maths skills, according to a new study. The research is the first to show that children's performance in arithmetic can show a "huge" ...

Using the index finger to trace over advanced and multi-step maths problems can help students with problem solving, new research shows. Tracing can assist learning not only for spatial topics such as ...