The OECD study assessed roughly 160,000 people between the ages 16 and 65 — across 31 countries — and looked at their literacy, numeracy and adaptive problem-solving skills. In literacy, the United ...

The "primacy of reading" hypothesis as the explanation of the high correlation between children's competencies in literacy and numeracy is rejected. Instead a "primacy of speech perception" hypothesis ...

However, a new study published in Science Advances challenges that idea, showing that cognitive abilities like literacy and numeracy can actually improve well into your 40s and beyond.

This is part of a series of weekly Live Lessons for Autumn 2020, designed to support children in catching up on literacy and numeracy as they return to school after lockdown. Each week ...