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Gestures Help Children Grasp Math
Science magazine: Children who are taught to use gestures to solve math problems demonstrate a deeper understanding of concepts, but why? A group of psychologists thinks it’s because the physical actions help youths understand abstract
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Children’s Arithmetic Development: It Is Number Knowledge, Not the Approximate Number Sense, That Counts Silke M. Göbel, Sarah E. Watson, Arne Lervåg, and Charles Hulme To examine
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A one-hour class could cut the college dropout rate
Reuters: (Reuters) First generation college students get lower grades and are more likely to drop out – an “achievement gap” that threatens efforts to boost the number of college graduates. Recent research, however, suggests a
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A Thousand Words: Writing from Photographs
The New Yorker: I can’t remember exactly when I stopped carrying a notebook. Sometime in the past year, I gave up writing hurried descriptions of people on the subway, copying the names of artists from
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Messy Rooms
Science Update: Past research has shown that being in a neat, clean environment can make people adopt higher moral standards. University of Minnesota psychologist Kathleen Vohs decided to take a closer look. Her team compared
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Gesturing With Hands Is a Powerful Tool for Children’s Math Learning
Children who use their hands to gesture during a math lesson gain a deep understanding of the problems they are taught, according to research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological
