Montgomery Blair High School student Rishik Shenolikar turned a small pandemic tutoring effort into Potomac PiRates Inc., a nonprofit helping elementary students overcome math anxiety through games, ...

OK, Ari, what is 567 times 123? And you have exactly three seconds to answer, so you better move fast. SHAPIRO: You can't be serious right now, Juana. SUMMERS: (Laughter). SHAPIRO: There's no way ...

My first date with my boyfriend was pretty average, a springtime walk followed by pizza. Sure, he was nice, a good listener and had dreamy blue eyes, but I wasn’t getting the butterflies. Well, not ...

Mike Byster is one of the world’s fastest mental math minds. He solves complex math equations in his head—even faster than a calculator. A former commodities trader turned educator, he has empowered ...

FORT LEE — For 10 seconds, a series of 50 random three-digit numbers flashed on the screen. After another second, abacus master Jeonghee Lee announced she'd finished the mental addition, correctly ...

One of Aaryan Shukla's world records is for mentally adding 100 four-digit numbers in 30.9 seconds. Reading time 2 minutes Remember when your teachers used to say that mental math is important because ...

Math anxiety, which can begin as early as kindergarten, negatively affects students’ math performance both in the moment and throughout their math education. Most research focuses on the affective or ...

I know many computer languages, but I’ve struggled all my life to learn a second human language. One of my problems is that I can’t stop trying to translate in my head. Just like Morse code, you need ...