The brain can count small numbers or compare large ones. But it struggles to understand the value of a single large number. This fact may be influencing how people react to numbers about the pandemic.
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Compared to people who aren’t as good at math, people who are better at math are more happy when they have high incomes and less happy when they have lower incomes.
People who struggle with numbers are also likely to struggle in life, new research shows.
Why haven’t people gotten upset about how our social distancing signs are fostering innumeracy?
Encouraging a child to hold their paint brush to develop a pincer grip while the child is involved in painting is one example of guided play.
The evidence clearly shows one-on-one tutoring improves disadvantaged students’ skills. An Australian pilot program has now shown the benefits of online tutoring that supports students in their homes.
A wide range of animals seem to have a grasp of numbers – but humans hold the trump card.
While COVID-19 has held back learning, the pandemic presents a historic opportunity to revamp education systems.
Understanding numbers in the news or social media can empower you to figure out risks and make good choices. Here’s what to look out for to make sure you aren’t misled by COVID-19 coverage.
Playful activities that involve choice, active engagement and moments of delight are what children need this summer during the pandemic.
Remote contact with families in the coronavirus emergency is critical, but learning on a screen is not how young children will gain the foundational and developmental skills they need.
Study presents a model that can be scaled to improve learning outcomes and transition rates for young people living in urban informal settlements.
There’s more to learning than content. As long as kids maintain the essential literacy, numeracy and social skills, they will be well placed to pick up content they may have missed later.
Years 5-7 typically include the transition from primary to secondary but the reading slowdown can’t just be blamed on this, because numeracy progress has improved. So what’s going on with reading?
How mathematically proficient are you? And do you have the skills to back up your level of math confidence? The answers to those questions may have ramifications for your financial and physical health.
The questions in the NAPLAN numeracy tests are often years behind the level of mathematics students following the curriculum are studying that year.
We asked 252 Australian Greens party supporters and 252 One Nation party supporters to do some simple maths. Their answers changed when we told them it was climate change data.
Research shows small financial incentives for doing maths homework can increase maths achievement. But this raises some tricky ethical questions.
Finger counting and struggling to tell the time or use a calendar are all typical signs of dyscalculia – sometimes called ‘maths dyslexia’.
Changes to the literacy and numeracy standards for new teachers in Victoria have raised questions about what makes a ‘good’ teacher.
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Associate Professor of Education Policy, The University of Western Australia
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School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
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Director, Center for Science Communication Research, University of Oregon
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Deputy CEO (Research), Australian Council for Educational Research
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Emeritus professor, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, Southern Cross University
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Professor, School of Science, Western Sydney University
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Laureate Professor of Mathematics, University of Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Professor of Linguistics, Yale University
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PhD; Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (retired) and Research Fellow, University of California, Davis
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Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience, University of New England
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Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Trento
