Barbie caught a lot of flack back in the ’90s for declaring, “Math class is tough!” Today we find ourselves in the disorienting position of defending her. We recently got a note from an anonymous ...

For many parents with young children, the bedtime routine is a firmly entrenched system involving a warm bath, a good book, a kiss and a hug. Toying with that equation borders on sacrilege, but Laura ...

SAN FRANCISCO — When faced with simple math problems, people who get jittery about the subject may rely more heavily on certain brain circuitry than math-savvy people do. The different mental approach ...

Can we actually read words and phrases and solve multi-step mathematical problems without our having consciously been aware of them? A team of psychologists has conducted a series of experiments that ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Applied mathematicians use math to model real-world situations. Ariel Skelley/DigitalVision via Getty Images You can probably ...