According to research by the author of Playful Interactions Dr. Karyn Purvis, scientists have determined that it takes approximately 400 repetitions to create a new synapse in the brain — unless it’s ...

Low mathematics achievement is a persistent problem in the United States, and multiplication is a fundamental area in which many students manifest learning difficulties. This study examined the ...

John Napier was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who usually gets the credit for inventing logarithms. But his contributions to simplifying mathematics and building shorthand ...

Sanaa Hiremath is like many 11-year-olds. She loves being outside or watching videos on her iPad, but here’s where she’s different: She can solve any math problem without using a calculator, pen, or ...

Once Sanaa Hiremath, 11, was home schooled, she found she could do math without writing problems down. She has a Guinness World Record, finishing a 12-digit multiplication problem in under 10 minutes.

Many students with math disabilities find complex, multistep math problems particularly difficult. Even children who did well in their early school years -- easily learning basic arithmetic and math ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...