When "Elephant' toothpaste erupts from the science lab, history deals up Pokémon playing cards, and math bakes a batch of chocolate brownies, it might seem like chaos. Yet, a groundbreaking study by ...

The first panel was separated into two sections, each followed by a brief discussion section. It began with a presentation defining the concept of numeracy by Lynda Ginsburg, an educational researcher ...

Calls have been made for councillors in Wakefield to undergo competency tests in literacy, numeracy and their knowledge of ...

As you may remember from your own (in)glorious youth, most university students are required to take a statistics course even if they hate math and aren’t in a particularly numbers-heavy major. Ellen ...

Literacy and numeracy equally affect an individual’s success in and beyond schools, but these two competencies tend to be separately examined, particularly in neuroimaging studies. The current resting ...

When a hurricane is bearing down on a coastal city, emergency management officials are tasked with making life-and-death choices: Do they mandate that people leave the area? Which communities should ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Are you a numbers person? Britain’s inaugural National Numeracy Day next week has been set up with the aim of ...

Why can’t we just let our mobiles and tablets take the strain when it comes to numbers? Are you a numbers person? Before you click away, horrified at the thought of pleasure-reading about maths, pause ...

About 14 percent of teens who met the literacy and numeracy requirements last year used alternative standards.

KINGSTON, Jamaica—The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has developed new numeracy and literacy standards as part of its efforts to improve the outcomes in the core subjects of English language and ...