The goals of the review are threefold:(a) to highlight the educational and employment
consequences of poorly developed mathematical competencies;(b) overview the …

Background: Arithmetical skills are essential to the effective exercise of citizenship in a
numerate society. How these skills are acquired, or fail to be acquired, is of great importance …

Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from
complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all …

" Reviewing the state of the science of learning disabilities (LD) and describing effective
educational practices, this authoritative text has been significantly revised and expanded …

Learn how the brain processes mathematical concepts and why some students develop
math anxiety! David A. Sousa discusses the cognitive mechanisms for learning mathematics …

Did evolution endow the human brain with a predisposition to represent dedicated domains
of knowledge? We have previously argued that the number domain provides a good …

Between 5% and 8% of school-age children have some form of memory or cognitive deficit
that interferes with their ability to learn concepts or procedures in one or more mathematical …

Forty-five children with mathematics learning disabilities, with and without comorbid reading
disabilities, were compared to 45 normally achieving peers in tasks assessing basic …

Groups of first-grade (mean age= 82 months), third-grade (mean age= 107 months), and fifth-
grade (mean age= 131 months) children with a learning disability in mathematics (MD, n …

There is a growing consensus that the neuropsychological underpinnings of developmental
dyscalculia (DD) are a genetically determined disorder of 'number sense', a term denoting …