Language learning company Duolingo released an iOS app designed to turn studying flash cards from a chore to a game. The app, called TinyCards, isn’t limited to language learning: it launched with ...

While students have been using flash cards to memorize facts and vocabulary at least since the Victorian era, it’s no secret that the study tools can be deathly dull. Hoping to change that is Duolingo ...

Young students around the world struggle to memorize multiplication tables, but the effort pays off. Cognitive scientists say that learning 6 x 7 and 8 x 9 by heart frees up the brain’s working memory ...