Most people in the math education space agree that students need to be fluent with basic math facts. By the time kids are in ...

A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

NOVAK DJOKOVIC first picked up a tennis racket when he was four years old. At the age of 12 he left his native Serbia for a tennis academy in Germany. He won his first major title—the 2008 Australian ...

More than 200 kids in the area are on the waiting list for a ‘Big.’ Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mississippi Valley needs volunteers to spend time with them. One of those kids is Amir, who loves ...

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You may have a leg up on the child prodigies who made you feel inadequate as a school kid. Despite outliers like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a new analysis based on 19 studies involving 34,000 high ...

Latrenda Knighten has always liked math. As a child, she remembers breezing through timed tests ‒ high speed, low stakes assignments that challenge students to complete a number of simple problems in ...

Mr. Graffman was a child prodigy whose career was curtailed by a neurological condition that restricted him to his left hand. By Vivien Schweitzer Gary Graffman, a former child prodigy whose ...

Marian Caballo is a senior editor on the 143rd editorial board and was the multimedia and data science editor on the 142nd and 141st editorial boards. Marian also served as an assistant news editor.

When psychologist-turned-playwright Alan Edmunds stumbled upon the story of Barbara Newhall Follett—a literary prodigy who wrote her first critically acclaimed novel before the age of twelve, then ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Child prodigy novelist Barbara Newhall Follett published her debut at 12, then vanished at 25, leaving an unsolved ...