From March 15, more than one million young Australians will sit the NAPLAN numeracy test. For most students, this will just be a routine part of the school day (albeit less fun than running around at ...

From classrooms to boardrooms, math anxiety shapes how we think. Education reformer Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash says it’s time ...

Mathematics -- it's the subject some kids love to hate. Yet despite its lack of popularity, mathematics is critical for a STEM-capable workforce and vital for current and future productivity. New ...

A festival in Londonderry is helping to alleviate the '"fear of maths" for both children and parents, organisers have said. The two-day event in the Guildhall, which is billed as the first of its kind ...

Kinga Morsanyi received funding from the Royal Society to carry out this research. Carlo Tomasetto received funding from The Royal Society to carry out this research. Paddy O'Connor and Veronica ...

I share Michael Brooks’s concerns about low levels of numeracy and high levels of “maths anxiety” (27 November 2021, p 25). But I don’t think the solution simply lies in a “more utilitarian approach” ...

Anxiety was traced by the CSHL team to the brain's central amygdala, and to increased excitation of neurons that express the peptide somatostatin (SOM+ neurons). This initial step is demonstrated in ...