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Motivation, Not IQ, Matters Most for Learning New Math Skills
Part of our math skills are innate, but a larger part isn’t
Early ADHD Treatment May Improve Girls’ Math Scores
A new study seeks to clarify whether drug treatment of ADHD helps students improve their performance in school in the long run.
The Math Gender Gap: Nurture Trumps Nature
(Updated) Rural India might not seem a likely place to study the roots of gender differences in math performance. But a new study of two tribes living in the northeast of the country offers intriguing evidence that biology alone …
Study: People May Be Born Good (or Bad) at Math
If you struggled through high school algebra, you probably thought you simply weren’t born good at math. You might have been right, at least according to a new study by Johns Hopkins University psychologists that suggests that math ability is linked to your inborn “number sense.”