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How Math Can Provoke Anxiety

Did you know that a high level of math anxiety can feel just as terrifying to a child as seeing a spider is to an arachnophobe? Surprising, right? This isn’t just about avoiding math homework; we’re talking about a genuine impediment to a child’s learning journey. In a surprisingly heartwarming twist, recent studies explore how […]

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The Cost of the Clock: How Time Limits Can Unfairly Shape Girls’ Math Performance

A university math lab. Two students—both bright, both well-prepared—sit side by side, pencils tapping. The timer starts. Twenty minutes later, the buzzer rings. He finishes the last problem just in time. She’s halfway through her final question, eyebrows knit, eraser smudging the page. When results come back, he scores higher—not because he understood more, but […]

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What Dyslexia Reveals About How Kids Learn Numbers

Here’s a stat that might stop you in your tracks: two out of every three children diagnosed with dyslexia also have math difficulties. We often picture dyslexia as a reading disorder—letters flipping, words jumbling—but for many kids, numbers trip them up just as much as words. A new study from researchers at the University of […]

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Why Some Kids Struggle to “Think It Through” — And How Schools Can Fix It

If you’ve ever heard that line from a student—or your child—you’re not alone. In classrooms across the country, kids are throwing up their hands at the first sign of a tricky problem. But what if the real issue isn’t math skills… It’s thinking skills? A new global review of research in Frontiers in Psychology reveals […]

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How Math Can Provoke Anxiety

The Cost of the Clock: How Time Limits Can Unfairly Shape Girls’ Math Performance

What Dyslexia Reveals About How Kids Learn Numbers

Why Some Kids Struggle to “Think It Through” — And How Schools Can Fix It

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