Barbie caught a lot of flack back in the ’90s for declaring, “Math class is tough!” Today we find ourselves in the disorienting position of defending her. We recently got a note from an anonymous ...

People often solve simple arithmetic problems, such as basic addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, in their ...

For many parents with young children, the bedtime routine is a firmly entrenched system involving a warm bath, a good book, a kiss and a hug. Toying with that equation borders on sacrilege, but Laura ...

SAN FRANCISCO — When faced with simple math problems, people who get jittery about the subject may rely more heavily on certain brain circuitry than math-savvy people do. The different mental approach ...

Prodigy Math Game blends curriculum-aligned math with role-playing adventures, turning problem-solving into an engaging quest ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Ever wondered how your mind deals with complex sums and multiplications? A new study has imaged how the brain's activity levels change while ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

A paper appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a strikingly simple answer to a longstanding question: How do people learn and settle on shared social conventions, from ...