The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is a public voice of mathematics education, providing vision, leadership, and professional development to support teachers in ensuring mathematics ...

When learning a natural concept, students develop a cognitive model or prototype. The accuracy of this prototype determines the classification performance. Generally, in an instruction the student is ...

Even before they learn to speak, babies organize information about numbers, space and time in more complex ways than previously realized. "We've shown that 9-month-olds are sensitive to 'more than' or ...

CHICAGO, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Research with deaf people in Nicaragua suggests language plays an important role in the brain's ability to learn the concept of numbers, U.S. scientists say. Researchers from ...