Kids with math learning disabilities process number symbols differently than quantities shown as dots — and it shows up in MRIs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — About two dozen second graders sat on the carpet at the front of Jacquelyn Anthony’s classroom, reviewing how to make tens. “Two needs eight!” the students yelled out together. “Six ...

Latrenda Knighten has always liked math. As a child, she remembers breezing through timed tests ‒ high speed, low stakes assignments that challenge students to complete a number of simple problems in ...

“I’m just bad at math” is a phrase I adopted early in my school career. A straight-A student who filled endless notebooks with observations about the world around me, the way numbers were presented by ...

The study suggests that children actively use gender stereotypes to guide how they learn. Young children trust math advice from men, even when it is wrong. A new study from Rutgers University–New ...

Our story about the use of devices in the early grade for both academic work and break time drew a flood of responses from ...