Did our AI summary help? It often starts in an ordinary moment. A child asks for help with homework. A parent sighs, hesitates, or says something familiar: “I was never good at maths.” Nothing ...

So, you think you want to be an engineer, or perhaps a computer programmer and rake in the big bucks. But the thought of all those math courses you will have to take in college sort of scares you. You ...

Getting early-childhood educators more comfortable with teaching math was the focus of a summer workshop held by the Erikson Institute in Chicago, Ill. Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The ...

Math anxiety is far from uncommon, but too often, those who dread the subject simply avoid it. Research from the University of Chicago offers new evidence for the link between math anxiety and ...

We know that girls can do math, and be very good at it. But a new study published this week in PNAS shows that some girls in elementary school aren't learning just how to add one plus one—they are ...

Kinga Morsanyi received funding from the Royal Society to carry out this research. Carlo Tomasetto received funding from The Royal Society to carry out this research. Paddy O'Connor and Veronica ...

Mathematics anxiety is a feeling of tension and fear when dealing with numbers or performing calculations. It is a common form of academic anxiety: according to an OECD report, around 40% of students ...

When was the last time you did a bit of math? Perhaps, like this writer, when splitting a check with some friends at a restaurant you (admittedly lazily) simply throw your credit card onto the pile, ...

There’s fear of math. And then there’s fear of Russian math, a private K-12 enrichment program cofounded by an immigrant in her Newton dining room in 1997. It has since grown to 32 locations in nine ...

Sarah M. Seltzer, Harvard '05, is a former editor of the Harvard Crimson's magazine. This is adapted from a column in the Crimson. In the midst of the uproar over gender touched off by Harvard’s ...