"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 ...

There's new evidence that girls start out with the same math abilities as boys. A study of 104 children from ages 3 to 10 found similar patterns of brain activity in boys and girls as they engaged ...

But as a young, struggling playwright, he decided to pick up a side gig as an elementary school math tutor. From early childhood development right up to brain scans of mathematicians, the research ...

Stimulating the brain with a very small electrical current ... suggest that up to 1 in 5 of us has difficulty learning basic math, according to Thompson. Thompson and her colleagues thought ...