When my children were in grade school, I never let them do their math homework with calculators. They had to work out the numbers in their head or with pencil and paper. I kept thinking about my ...

That conclusion doesn’t add up, at least for college students, according to a study in the June Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. On the contrary, people’s intrusive worries about math ...

Brain switching Brain cells we use to mull over our past must switch off when we do sums, say researchers, who have been spying on a previously inaccessible part of the brain. The findings could help ...

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A new study suggests that not having any maths education after the age of 16 can be disadvantageous. Adolescents who stopped studying maths showed a reduction in a critical brain chemical for brain ...

New research indicates that working memory is a key component of math anxiety. These findings suggest that worrying about a situation (such as solving an arithmetic problem in front of a group of ...

WASHINGTON—Sometime in elementary school, you quit counting your fingers and just know the answer. Now scientists have put youngsters into brain scanners to find out why, and watched how the brain ...

CORONA DEL MAR — Karina Grover wore a lime green T-shirt with the pi symbol, as she sat perched at a table covered in pi swag at Mathnasium. There was a pi coloring sheet, pi trivia, lime-green pi ...

When my children were in grade school, I never let them do their math homework with calculators. They had to work out the numbers in their head or with pencil and paper. I kept thinking about my ...