Rita Bennett understands that teaching math to her second graders these days adds up to a whole lot more than 2 + 2 = 4. On one recent morning she presented the following problem to her Simi Valley, ...

Young children can crudely add and subtract numbers before they have learned the rules of arithmetic, a new study finds. Researchers presented five- and six-year-old children with problems such as, ...

My father was a blue-collar man from his head to the tips of his work boots. He’d come home when I was in kindergarten, covered in soot, hair wild, grinning. Fridays brought big grins. Fridays meant ...

Scientific American presents Math Dude by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. Do you think math is fun? I absolutely think that it should be.