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 ...

Number sense is so ingrained that many adults don’t remember being taught such early math skills, much like learning how to read. But unlike the recent wave of evidence on science-based reading ...

From at least the nineteenth century, educators have thought that playing with specially designed blocks would give children a tangible sense of mathematical relationships. The San Diego, California, ...