We knew it! There’s a good reason your body, brain, and heart physically avoided math homework and dreaded fulfilling those required quantitative skills credit all these years. A recent study by ...

Educators may be teaching students to have a math phobia rather than teaching them to love the subject. On Monday our school celebrated the 100th Day. If you have ever spent time in an elementary ...

This article is presented in partnership with CA Lottery. More kids are scared of fractions than they are of Frankenstein. Anxiety about math, if not addressed, can quickly escalate and make it harder ...

Laura Overdeck is many things – a mom of three, astrophysicist, MBA, and philanthropist, but her real passion is taking the fear and boredom out of learning math. She founded the national nonprofit ...

Joy and enthusiasm provide essential components to build the motivation and perseverance needed to understand and succeed in math. Neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience research show correlations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Texas Instruments TI-30 calculator retailed for $24.95 in 1976 at O’Neil's department store in Akron. Look, I’ve never been ...

It was functions and relations that finally killed me. I was 15 years old, in a class taught by an old guy named Mr. Fox—and by “old,” I mean around 46, the age I am now. Mr. Fox was the last in a ...

In 1972 psychologist Richard Suinn devised a treatment for anxiety, but it was useless without a group of anxious people to test it on. So Suinn devised a 98-item test to measure math anxiety in ...