Inborn deficit adds to dyscalculia
Researchers in Austria have discovered that an inborn deficit causes kids with dyscalculia (trouble with math) to have an imprecise representation of numbers....
read moreHand gesturing during math lessons increases understanding
New research from the University of Chicago Department of Psychology found that children who used their hands to gesture during math lessons better understood the problems they were taught....
read moreBeing “good at math” not an innate skill
Research on Norwegian students of average age 10.5 years found that practice, no innate math skills, makes you good at math....
read moreEarly spatial skills and knowledge of written letters predicts math competence...
It’s not oral language skills that predict math, according to longitudinal research out of Finland....
read moreStudying blind math geniuses may help us approach math differently...
Research from the University of Hull found that blind volunteers who were great at math had particularly outstanding estimation skills – even better than sighted people. This contradicts the notion that vision is essential to develop advanced math skills....
read moreDyscalculia may sometimes be due to biology
Research out of Austria suggests that dyscalculia may sometimes be due to biology; in other words, they are born with a deficit that causes them to have an “imprecise internal representation of numbers.”...
read moreAutistic brains are different, not deficient, when doing math...
Children with autism who display strong math abilities have different – not deficient – brain patterns when doing calculations. The Stanford researchers want people to start thinking about autistic brains in a new light: special, not broken....
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