From the Karolinska Institutet press release: Young children who practice visual working memory and reasoning tasks improve their math skills more than children who focus on spatial rotation exercises, according… Read more »
From the University of Kansas press release: Music educator Martin J. Bergee thought that if he could just control his study for the myriad factors that might have influenced previous… Read more »
From the Université de Genève press release: How can mathematics learning in primary school be facilitated? A recent study conducted by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, had shown that… Read more »
From the Emory Health Sciences press release: Dogs spontaneously process basic numerical quantities, using a distinct part of their brains that corresponds closely to number-responsive neural regions in humans, finds… Read more »
From the Carnegie Mellon University press release: In 1992, Teen Talk Barbie was released with the controversial voice fragment, “Math class is hard.” While the toy’s release met with public… Read more »
From the Ohio State University press release: Being good at math relates to better financial and medical outcomes — unless you don’t have confidence in your own abilities with numbers,… Read more »
From the Yale University press release: A beautiful landscape painting, a beautiful piano sonata — art and music are almost exclusively described in terms of aesthetics, but what about math?… Read more »
From the University of Cambridge press release: A report out today examines the factors that influence ‘maths anxiety’ among primary and secondary school students, showing that teachers and parents may… Read more »
From the Harvard University press release: Calculus. The word alone is enough strike terror into the hearts of even the most accomplished students, but for those who break out in… Read more »
From the Frontiers press release: A free ‘massive, open, online course’ (MOOC) designed to change students’ attitudes towards mathematics makes them more engaged in class — leading to significantly higher… Read more »
