Somewhere in your skull right now, there is no math department. No region of the brain exists solely to process equations, balance a checkbook, or wrestle with calculus. That is the central conclusion ...

A graphic artist is testing everyone’s knowledge of the mathematical order of operations with a string of numbers and missing arithmetic symbols. Gergely Dudás, of Budapest, Hungary, shared the new ...

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Those “aha” moments were ...

A Brain teaser is a type of puzzle, which is a short, playful puzzle designed to stretch your mind and make you smile. It could be in the form of a riddle, a tricky question, a visual illusion, or a ...

Far too many students enter math class expecting to fail. For them, math isn’t just a subject–it’s a source of anxiety that chips away at their confidence and makes them question their abilities. A ...

This 26-question general knowledge quiz covers everything from science to geography, math to art, and is designed to test how ...

A painless, non-invasive brain stimulation technique can significantly improve how young adults learn math, my colleagues and I found in a recent study. In a paper in PLOS Biology, we describe how ...

It is a central question in neuroscience to understand how different regions of the brain interact, how strongly they "talk" to each other. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in ...