How many times a day do you sing the alphabet to your little one? Probably more times than you can count, right? With ABCs come 123s, and because children learn through repetition, you’re probably ...

Here’s a famous teaser that I don’t really like much: What number comes next in the sequence 8, 5, 4, 9, 1, 7,…? It’s not so obvious. It becomes a little easier when we write the sequence in words: ...

It happens every time. As I hand the test out to my middle school students, one of them will invariably look up, pencil at the ready, and ask, "Does spelling count?" Let's ignore the fact that my ...