Our Schools Have a Problem: Textbook Math Doesn’t Help in Real Life — and Vice Versa
While market-working kids in India excel at mental calculations, they struggle with textbook math — while schoolchildren fail at simple ...
Tag: cognitive development
Toddlers understand the concept of impossibility — and learn better from it
Toddlers seem to understand that things can be impossible — and this helps them learn.
Baby brains grow to half the adult size in just 90 days
Researchers performed MRI scans on babies to see how their brains developed from birth to later stages. Their findings reveal ...
Professional athletes learn faster than University students
There's a common stereotype that depicts athletes as being grunts that are all brawn and no brain. In reality, the truth ...
Keeping the brain healthy with age: reading, writing or playing games
A new study found a direct correlation between the frequency of cognitive activity at later life and brain health. As we age, ...
SpongeBob helps scientists understand how toddlers think
Everyone having children or who has ever babysat at least for a couple of hours knows what an impossible task ...
