Brian Butterworth is on a crusade to understand the number deficit called dyscalculia — and to help those who have it. In the mid-1980s, Paul Moorcraft, then a war correspondent, journeyed with a film ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

Having a poor "gut sense" of numbers can lead to a mathematical learning disability and difficulty in achieving basic math proficiency. This inaccurate number sense is just one cause of math learning ...

1. Fast and Slow Piles. This works well as a starting or closing activity. Students sort math fact cards into fast and slow piles. This visual way of tracking facts highlights which facts come ...

At the intersection of psychology and neuroscience is a phenomena called “number sense”—an intuition of the magnitude and relationships of numbers that is found in humans. In children and adolescents, ...