WASHINGTON — 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 ...

Math researchers discovered new evidence about math learning disabilities. Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have discovered that the innate ability to estimate quantities is ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Can’t calculate a tip or even balance your checkbook? Take heart; maybe you can blame your brain – specifically, the parietal cortex in the top back part of the head. And it could ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 learning disability is also referred to as dyscalculia. The study was published in Child Development and was conducted by Michele Mazzocco, Ph.D., at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and the Johns ...