A new study reports that members of the Mundurucu, an Amazonian tribe with no geometric terms in their language or ability to add or manipulate numbers larger than five, have an intuitive sense of Euclidean geometry. The researchers tested 7-13 … Continue reading
Summer is almost here and though we’ve all heard about danger of the “summer slide”–children forgetting much of what they learned during the school year–how do you motivate a child to do academic work when the sun is shining and … Continue reading
A recent article in Edweek talks about brain research into the causes and treatments for math anxiety. Math anxiety is feeling “negative emotions when engaging in an activity that requires numerical or math skills.” The brains of people with math … Continue reading
Parents are told to value math themselves in order to pass on this positive attitude to their children. But how much math does the average informed citizen need to know in order to get through the day? Check out this … Continue reading