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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

WE HAVE a problem with maths. Our approach to the subject has led to a situation where 30 per cent of US adults are defined as having “low numeracy”: they can’t make calculations with whole numbers ...

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 ...