GREENSBORO, N.C. — Becoming good at math begins long before a child enters school. Even infants are wired to learn simple math ideas, including small numbers, patterns and making comparisons. You ...

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Keeping the attention of a room of 4th graders is difficult. And keeping them interested while you’re teaching them math is nearly impossible. But there was Mike Byster, mesmerizing–really, they were ...

Adults who are anxious about math have more difficulty doing even basic operations, such as counting six squares on a computer screen, than people who do not dread calculating a tip or the amount they ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story should have said that Pieter Noordam lives in San Jose, Calif. For Pieter Noordam, good mathematics is a part of good parenting. Math is crucial to the work ...