Before Benjamin Franklin became a printer, newsman, author, inventor, philosopher, diplomat and founding father of the United ...

Hall, hired me to man his roadside stand on weekends. Mr. Hall had one rule: no calculators. Technology wasn’t his vibe. Math was my strong suit in school, but I struggled to tally the sums in my head ...

Yet they fail when presented with similar arithmetic problems in the abstract format used in schools. Similarly, researchers tested 471 children who were enrolled in local schools but had no ...