Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids
Teaching children to care about others might be the best way to prepare them for a successful and fulfilling life.
Article Type: Education
How Children Read Differently From Books vs. Screens
Scrolling may work for social media, but experts say that for school assignments, kids learn better if they slow down their reading.
How I Made Sure All 12 of My Kids Could Pay For College Themselves?
Francis Thompson and his wife had 12 children. All 12 of his kids have college degrees and they as parents did not pay for it. Here is how?
Why Preschool Shouldn’t Be Like School?
New research shows that teaching kids more and more, at ever-younger ages, may backfire. Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger…
How Our 1,000-Year-Old Math Curriculum Cheats America’s Kids?
Imagine you had to take an art class in which you were taught how to paint a fence or a wall, but you were never shown the paintings of the…
What is Group Theory
In math, a group is a particular collection of elements. That might be a set of integers, the face of a Rubik’s cube–which we’ll simplify to a 2×2 square for…
The Singular Mind of Terry Tao
At age 10, Tao became the youngest person in history to win a medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad. He has since won many other prizes, including a MacArthur ‘‘genius’’…
5-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus
Why playing with algebraic and calculus concepts—rather than doing arithmetic drills—may be a better way to introduce children to math?
A Mathematician Has Created a Teaching Method That’s Proving There’s No Such Thing as a Bad Math Student
John Mighton has designed a teaching program that has some of the worst-performing math students performing well and actually enjoying math.
First Children Are Smarter—but Why?
“Those born earlier perform better in school”—and according to a new study, it’s because of the parents. Moms and dads simply go easy on their later-born kids, according to data analyzed…
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