Math4Keeps

Learning and remembering cannot occur simultaneously

Very technical -- but interesting research "It is well established that children, adults, and nonhuman animals share a basic ability to perceive and compare nonsymbolic quantities of items, commonly referred to as "numerosity." Symbolic numerical representations build on these basic abilities to enable human children and adults to use precise number words, symbols, and linguistic quantifiers"

Brain Compatible Classroom

"three principles that are emerging from cross-disciplinary work: learning is computational, learning is social, and learning is supported by brain circuits linking perception and action that connect people to one another.

where math learning occurs in the brain

cognitive neuroscience & math

link between language and math -- by a guy at houghton mifflin

social interaction and math learning in the "strategy reporting classroom --\nThe increasing demand on student thinking and the expectation for social interaction is the basis upon which meaning making, individual and collective, is accomplished in the class and represents a link between student cognition and classroom social processes.

Over the last decades, results from several disciplines\nrelating to cognitive science (in particular from psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, cognitive\nethology, and cognitive neuroscience) have shed new\nlight on the relationship between language and numerical cognition.

great series of blog posts by maria at College math

How Humans Learn to Think Mathematically