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

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 ...

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

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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 ...

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