If it wasn’t entirely clear before that Progressive Conservative education ministers like Dave Hancock and now Jeff Johnson made a mistake in altering and promoting the province’s discovery/inquiry ...
Scientists have found that the strength of communication between the left and right hemispheres of the brain predicts performance on basic arithmetic problems. The findings shed light on the neural ...
A learning center is teaching kids, aged three to 13 years old, how to learn and better appreciate math with the use of an abacus, a manual computing device, that helps them keep track of numbers and ...
Sigal, a second-grade girl in Israel, was observed for several months while practicing arithmetic with a structured and controlled computer-assisted instruction (CAI) system. Sigal was average in ...
Noise can be distracting, especially to a person trying to concentrate on a difficult task. Studying annoying noises helps architects design better building environments and policy makers choose ...
Mathematics education and assessments increasingly involve arithmetic problems presented in context: a realistic situation that requires mathematical modeling. This study assessed the effects of such ...
large-scale language models (LLMs), such as OpenAI's GPT-4, has advanced and wide-ranging capabilities, such as generating natural sentences and solving various problems. However, even in elementary ...
Teachers often remind schoolchildren to sit up straight. But a new study suggests that slouching may be a natural posture for children during activities requiring mental effort. Muscle activity ...