America’s students continue to struggle in mathematics. The reasons are multifarious and sometimes elusive, but our recent ...

What does Math Notes do? Math Notes is the best feature in the new Calculator app. This feature goes beyond the mundane calculations we’ve all come to expect. Imagine this: you’re scribbling away with ...

Students who don’t read well or lack crucial vocabulary often face unnecessary obstacles—not just in reading but also in math.

Talk to your toddler. And use numbers when you talk. Doing so may give a child a better head start in math than teaching her to memorize 1-2-3 counting routines.

Say what you will about the universality of numbers and symbols; I’d politely argue that it does not follow that mathematics is a universal language. The problem for many struggling math students is ...

Euler’s constant explains so much about math and physics. We delve into the number e, or Euler’s number, to find out why it’s so special.

The language a child speaks affects the rate at which they learn number words, and hearing number words in natural conversation – not just in counting routines – is a critical part of learning ...

Duolingo, a quick-and-easy learning app that boasts more than 128 million monthly active users worldwide — mostly for its ...

Veselin talked about mathematics, showed his mathematical models, and challenged the group with a few puzzles. Later on Tuesday, Veselin did a few math hands on activities with smaller groups of ...

Some people are math wizards while others have a particular knack in verbal skills, with scientists saying a combination of nature and nurture, that is, development, genes, environment and even ...

The brain areas that light up for the language of geometry are what Dr. Dehaene and his former Ph.D. student, Marie Amalric, now a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, called the math-responsive network.