Math and the brain

"s a nation, we confront a clear challenge in educating our young. The United States has fallen behind on international measures of academic success. Students of poverty and color face gaps in opportunity and achievement. Teachers and schools face diminishing budgets. Yet many students learn. Many succeed. How can we leverage their successes, and current research about adolescent learning, to help ensure that their peers will succeed? The purpose of this website is to share with educators and parents highly compelling knowledge about student success, through the most respected research and the ideas and practices that have demonstrated success."

The bigger your social network, the bigger your brain - well, at least your amygdala.

But is having a bigger amygdala better? One research team's speculation: