New research findings reveal that parents' anxiety about mathematics can have a negative impact on their children's early numeracy skills, influencing their performance in the subject as they progress ...

Imagine a world with no math. No way to calculate your batting average or track your Twitter followers. Say it Ain't So! This kind of world may seem funny to many of us, but living without math skills ...

Michelle Tregoning remembers the first time she felt nervous about maths like it was yesterday. In Year 6, she was asked to answer a simple maths question in front of the class: what's 5 x 6? Ms ...

Love it or hate it, but we can never ignore Mathematics, the ‘queen of sciences’. Maths is all around us - an integral part of our everyday lives. Think of budgeting, cooking, shopping, or time ...

Who didn’t roll their eyes in math class, thinking that they’d never use this stuff in real life? Well, it looks like solving equations in school works out to your advantage in the long run, after all ...

Teenagers who stick with the subject have higher levels of chemical vital for brain plasticity, research shows Students who drop mathematics at the age of 16 have lower amounts of a brain chemical ...

Mathematicians fear proposed cuts to rigorous topics could affect students far beyond those pursuing maths degrees, including ...

Adolescents who stopped studying math showed a reduction in a critical brain chemical for brain development. This reduction in brain chemical was found in a key brain area that supports math, memory, ...

The Minister for Education Hildegarde the Leaving Certificate draft curriculum is "not final" and that there could be ...