Math struggles in kids may stem from brains that have a harder time learning from mistakes—not just understanding numbers.

Faengsrud founded House of Math in 2006, bootstrapping it from a one-woman tutoring service into a platform with over 2.6 million users.

On a simple math task - indicating which of two amounts is greater - kids with math learning disability get the right answer ...

Math often feels disconnected from the real lives of students. They learn the steps, solve equations and check their work, ...

American students are struggling with math, but what’s really to blame? Some blame the pandemic. Others point to overreliance ...

Hyesang Chang and colleagues, from Stanford University, explored why some children struggle to learn math compared to their peers in a new JNeurosci paper. Children selected which numbers were bigger ...

Most people in the math education space agree that students need to be fluent with basic math facts. By the time kids are in upper elementary grades, they should be able to produce the answer to 6x3 ...

There was a time that I thought that understanding math was more useful than memorizing it. A certain amount of memorization is essential, especially for lower-level math. For example, you need to ...

When you’re solving a challenging math problem, you know your brain is working hard. But what, exactly, is going on in there? Despite decades of research into math teaching and learning, there is ...

Dyscalculia is a severe and persistent learning disability in math that affects about 5 to 8 percent of school-age children. Due to its impact on students’ ability to learn and retain basic math facts ...

Math anxiety is a significant challenge for students worldwide. While personalized support is widely recognized as the most ...