If you’re a teacher in a state that will take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced common-core-aligned assessments next spring, you know by now that the performance tasks for math are going to be hard—likely ...

MRI research found children with math learning disabilities process number symbols differently, but not dot quantities.

As two state consortia work to finish new assessments aligned with the Common Core State Standards, some mathematics experts say they’re worried that the computer-based testing platforms will hamper a ...

Fear of maths can activate regions of the brain linked with the experience of physical pain, a study has found. The higher a person’s anxiety of a maths task, the more it increases activity in regions ...

Scientists have proved what students have long suspected: Maths equations can actually trigger physical pain. Regions of the brain linked with the experience of physical suffering were activated in ...

School pupils in England should study maths up to the age of 18, a report for the Conservative Party has said. It says radical change is needed to give children the mathematical skills needed to ...