New research findings reveal that parents' anxiety about mathematics can have a negative impact on their children's early numeracy skills, influencing their performance in the subject as they progress ...

Exposure to general anaesthestic up to age four raises the risk of poor child development and reduced literacy and numeracy as measured by school tests, new research reveals. The new finding published ...

Children develop an enormous amount during their early years—socially, physically, emotionally and cognitively. What happens between the ages of 0 and 8 years can predict important long-term outcomes: ...

Report by east African group Uwezo finds that although access to education has expanded, the quality of learning has stagnated More than two out of every three pupils who have finished two years of ...

"Embedded". Like many fashionable educational terms in current use, the word's interpretation varies with different users. The underlying concept is consistent, though: creating ways for learners to ...

Results from the trial literacy and numeracy test for initial teacher education students are in. The tests were sat by 5,000 volunteers across the country, with 92% passing in literacy and 90% in the ...

Numeracy is a complex skill. All sorts of adults and children suffer from “maths anxiety”, which ranges from discomfort with numbers to a deep fear of them. Why should this be? The fundamentals of ...