From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication ...

We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...

Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She unpacks it piece by piece: bright, 3D-printed shapes that click together… ...

Math is one of those things that unites all of us: students with their homework to do, teachers with their lesson plans, and ...

Scientists have found that the strength of communication between the left and right hemispheres of the brain predicts performance on basic arithmetic problems. The findings shed light on the ...

NUMBER NERVOUSNESS People anxious about doing math use certain brain networks differently when doing arithmetic, which suggests they might use different problem-solving strategies than people who ...

Sylvia Weber-Russell, Mark D. LeBlanc, Learning by Seeing by Doing: Arithmetic Word Problems, The Journal of the Learning Sciences, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2004), pp. 197-220 ...

For decades, educators have assumed that learning arithmetic in school helps students solve real-world problems. Yet, a new study published in Nature by a team of researchers including Nobel ...

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MRI studies show that doing arithmetic sends blood coursing through these regions of the brain. Interestingly, once we’re good at math, it takes less blood to get the job done.