We ran a story in October about former Glasgow barber Tom Lennett’s invention, a numbers-based board game called Numenko. Our piece was spotted on the internet, and news reached staff at a top online store in the US. And Numenko will go on sale today on the site, The Daily Grommet, which has a track

Few parents are qualified teachers or are maths geniuses, but think back and remember it was you, the parent, who helped your child to learn to speak and read simple story books. You have one thing in common with most teachers; they are not generally maths geniuses either, although it seems to be expected of

Mathematics teachers are battling with simple issues such as calculating percentages, according to a study using the recent Southern and East African Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ III) dataset for South Africa. “What is evident is that maths performance is not very good in the broader context of what one expects from primary level.

So it turns out that playing board games can turn your child into a math whiz. According to the research published in the March-April issue of the journal Child Development, number board games similar to Chutes and Ladders can help children, especially those from low-income families, develop number skills that are necessary to do well