Burgeoning research into students’ difficulties with mathematics is starting to tease out cognitive differences between students who sometimes struggle with math and those who have dyscalculia, a ...

Laura Jackson became seriously concerned about her daughter and math when the girl was in third grade. While many of her classmates flew through multiplication tests, Jackson's daughter relied on her ...

Laura Jackson became seriously concerned about her daughter and math when the girl was in third grade. While many of her classmates flew through multiplication tests, Jackson’s daughter relied on her ...

Children who start elementary school with difficulty associating small exact quantities of items with the printed numerals that represent those quantities are more likely to develop a math-related ...

Anyone who struggles with math—or teaches someone who does—will be intrigued by new research that tries to answer the question: how can you tell when students are having garden-variety troubles with ...

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. So far in our series on learning disabilities we have talked about problems with reading, writing and movement. Today we talk about a problem that ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report Laura Jackson became seriously concerned about her daughter and math when the girl was in third grade. While many of ...

Research has found that dyscalculia, a learning disability focused around number and math concepts, is as common as dyslexia. Christie Nicholson reports If you're enjoying this article, consider ...

Math doesn’t add up for some kids, and a weak number sense may be partly to blame. An evolutionarily ancient ability to estimate quantities takes a big hit in children with severe, ...

I hate numbers -- always have, always will. Math class was never my cup of tea and tipping a waitress properly still perplexes me. I've even found myself at age 24 asking my roommate to organize our ...