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These Cognitive Exercises Help Children Boost Their Math Skills

These Cognitive Exercises Help Children Boost Their Math Skills

Young children who practice visual working memory and reasoning tasks improve their math skills more than children who focus on spatial rotation exercises.
Posted in Education, Engagement, Mathematics, Neuroscience

Why Our Brains Miss Opportunities to Improve Through Subtraction

Why Our Brains Miss Opportunities to Improve Through Subtraction

A new study explains why people rarely look at a situation, object or idea that needs improving -- in all kinds of contexts -- and think to remove something as a solution. Instead, we almost always add some element, whether it helps or not.
Posted in Mathematics, Neuroscience, Technology

Puzzle Play Helps Boost Math Skills 

Puzzle Play Helps Boost Math Skills 

Researchers have found that children who played with puzzles at a young age later perform better on tasks utilizing spatial skills.
Posted in Education, Engagement, Language, Learning & Memory, Mathematics, Memory, Neuroscience

Read to Succeed -- in Math

Read to Succeed -- in Math

He tried to identify dyslexia based on how the brain is wired for reading. Instead he found that the way the brain is wired for reading is actually influencing math ability.
Posted in Education, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Reading Skills, School Readiness

Sport May Fast-Track Numeracy Skills for Indigenous Children

Sport May Fast-Track Numeracy Skills for Indigenous Children

Greater sports participation is linked with better academic performance, according to new research from the University of South Australia.
Posted in Education, Mathematics, Movement & Exercise, Social Development, Social Skills

Blink! The Link Between Aerobic Fitness and Cognition

Blink! The Link Between Aerobic Fitness and Cognition

Researchers have found evidence that spontaneous eye blink activity, which reflects activity in the dopaminergic system, explains the connection between fitness and cognitive function.

Posted in Education, Engagement, Language, Learning & Memory, Mathematics, Memory, Motivation, Movement & Exercise, Neuroscience

Strong links between music and math, reading achievement

Strong links between music and math, reading achievement

A music educator thought he could disprove the notion of a link between students’ musical and mathematical achievement. He was wrong.

Posted in Attention, Education, Language, Learning & Memory, Mathematics, Music, Neuroscience

Heavy TV and Computer Use Impacts Children’s Academic Results

Heavy TV and Computer Use Impacts Children’s Academic Results

A new study reveals an association between heavy television use and poorer reading performance, as well as, between heavy computer use and poorer numeracy.

Posted in Education, Mathematics, Reading Skills, Technology

Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder Is More Common Than Thought

Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder Is More Common Than Thought

Nonverbal learning disability (NVLD), a poorly understood and often-overlooked disorder that causes problems with visual-spatial processing, may affect nearly 3 million children in the United States, making it one of the most common learning disorders.
Posted in Education, Health & Wellness, Learning & Memory, Mathematics, Memory, Movement & Exercise, Neuroscience, Reading Skills, Social Development

Socio-Economic Status Predicts Boys’ Development of Essential Thinking Skills

Socio-Economic Status Predicts Boys’ Development of Essential Thinking Skills

A comparison of children in Hong Kong, mainland China and the UK has found that British boys’ development of key thinking skills, known as ‘executive functions’, is unusually reliant on their socio-economic status.
Posted in Education, Mathematics

More than Half of U.S. Students Experience Summer Learning Losses Five Years in a Row

More than Half of U.S. Students Experience Summer Learning Losses Five Years in a Row

These students on average lose nearly 40 percent of their school year gains.
Posted in Education, Language, Mathematics, Reading Skills, School Readiness

Using LEGO to Test Children's Ability to Visualize and Rotate 3D Shapes in Space

Using LEGO to Test Children's Ability to Visualize and Rotate 3D Shapes in Space

Spatial visualization is the ability to visualize 3D shapes in one’s mind, which is tied to increased GPAs and graduation rates in STEM.
Posted in Education, Mathematics, Technology