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 ...

A committee has found students in the ACT should study maths through to the end of year 12 to ensure they have better long-term outcomes, arguing a lack of maths understanding can exacerbate social ...

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 ...

As you may remember from your own (in)glorious youth, most university students are required to take a statistics course even if they hate math and aren’t in a particularly numbers-heavy major. Ellen ...

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, ...

Choosing a senior maths subject is truly like finding the Goldilocks option. Too difficult, and students may become overwhelmed and underperform. Too easy, and they may miss out on the challenge, ...

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 ...

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 ...