Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s a mind-blowing experiment that you can try at home: Gather some children’s blocks and place them on a table. Take one block ...

Two effective manipulatives that can be used to support fractions and base 10 learning are base 10 blocks and Cuisenaire rods ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story misspelled the name of Julie Sarama, a researcher who has developed strategies for building the mathematical skills of preschool students. A pair of New ...

Mathematicians are creating their own version of the periodic table that will provide a vast directory of all the possible shapes in the universe across three, four and five dimensions, linking shapes ...

Hunt for shapes and make familiar objects by putting together several different shapes. Warm up with a Mystery Math Mistake to tell whether Dotson's 10-frames represent a number more than his focus ...

NEW YORK - Blocks, puzzles and other hands-on toys that have long been mainstays of children's play are still best at teaching some skills needed for success, according to a research review. Although ...

For more than a year, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign for free preschool has focused to a great extent on expanding enrollment at an unprecedented clip. On Tuesday, his team will push a new agenda for ...