Babies’ spatial reasoning predicts later math skills, study finds
Spatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at math at four years of…
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Online gaming can boost math, science and reading skills among 15-year-old students
Teenagers who regularly play online video games tend to improve their school results, according to…
Kindergarteners’ mathematics success hinges on preschool skills
While many studies have been conducted on infants’ and preschoolers’ math competencies, few have evaluated…
Distinct stages of thinking revealed by brain activity patterns
Neuroimaging data can reveal the mental stages people go through as they are solving challenging…
Higher-income students have an edge when it comes to working memory
University of Toronto and MIT researchers have discovered important differences between lower and higher-income children…
Early behavior problems impact long-term educational attainment more for boys than girls
A new study finds that behavioral problems in early childhood have a larger negative effect…
Gamble on your opponent’s gaze if you want to win blackjack
Blackjack players who hold high-value cards tend to glance fleetingly to the right, whereas those…
Study finds teen-adult social media interactions can be valuable
Friend requested by mom, dad and the math teacher? When teen and adult worlds collide…
Lessons on personalities help teens cope with social stressors
Teaching teens that social and personality traits can change helps them cope with social challenges…
A simple numbers game seems to make kids better at math
Although math skills are considered notoriously hard to improve, Johns Hopkins University researchers boosted kindergarteners’…
Students view gay professors as less qualified after listening to anti-gay rap music
Male college students exposed to rap music that disparages gay people are more likely to…
Kids who text and watch TV simultaneously more likely to underperform at school
The more time teenagers spend splitting their attention between various devices such as their phones,…
Girls from progressive societies do better at math, study finds
Research co-authored by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) has found that the ‘maths gender…
How do you design a home for someone with autism?
What if every time the bathroom fan buzzed, you became unhinged? Or you lived in…
Smartphones uncover how the world sleeps
A pioneering study of worldwide sleep patterns combines math modeling, mobile apps and big data…
