"But in math, the curriculum proceeds whether ... Back in the fMRI machine, six-year-old Olivia is watching a cartoon to give her brain a break after responding to another round of cognitive ...

“What happens in the brain when we look at a cartoon?” Dr. Restak asked. He showed a famous line drawing, “Cookie Theft,” which doctors have used to diagnose patients’ perceptive abilitie ...

Now, new research from a neuroscience lab at Stanford University finds evidence that indeed, differences in brain geography strongly affect how people develop in math. In research published in the ...

A study published Friday in the journal Science of Learning discovered that young boys and girls use the same mechanisms and networks in the brain to solve math problems. While some have thought ...

Boys and girls show the same brain activity when it comes to math, according to a new study published Friday in the journal Science of Learning. The seven-year study, conducted in Rochester ...

The brain makes sense of the world, and mathematics, through culture. As the math educator in residence at Just Equations, a nonprofit focused on the intersection of math and equity, I research math ...