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John Mighton, a mathematician and playwright, is the founder of JUMP Math, a charity that provides training and resources to teachers and parents. He is the author of "The End of Ignorance" and was ...

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After India Archer failed the required math classes at her Indiana high school, keeping her from earning a standard graduation diploma, she worked her way up to calculus at Madison College, where she ...

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 ...

Anxiety about doing math problems can be relieved with a one-on-one math tutoring program, according to a new study. The study showed that tutoring fixed abnormal responses in the brain's fear ...

Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...

When Walter Schenk's daughter Alexa was struggling in math class three years ago, the Alamo high-tech consultant created a computer program to help her. Now Schenk and his friend Graham Anderson of ...

Children do better at maths when music is a key part of their lessons, an analysis of almost 50 years of research on the topic has revealed. It is thought that music can make maths more enjoyable, ...