Math struggles in kids may stem from brains that have a harder time learning from mistakes—not just understanding numbers.

A new Stanford study suggests math struggles may be about more than numbers. Children who had difficulty with math were less ...

Hyesang Chang and colleagues, from Stanford University, explored why some children struggle to learn math compared to their peers in a new JNeurosci paper. Children selected which numbers were bigger ...

Children who start using their fingers early are more likely to become better at calculating later, a Swiss study has found. Photo: dpa/Marcel Kusch Counting on fingers in primary school is not a sign ...

What's the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables, or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level? Educators have long debated the merits of these ...

On a simple math task - indicating which of two amounts is greater - kids with math learning disability get the right answer ...