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Reports research from UChicago: "Students who spend just ten minutes writing about their worries before a test score higher than" otherwise. Math tests of increasing difficulty and with more daunting circumstances were used in the study.

A collaboration among Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance & Education Next, the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and Harvard Kennedy School . "To see how well the U.S. as a whole, each state, and certain urban districts do at producing high-achieving math students, the percentage of U.S. public and private school students in the high-school graduating Class of 2009 who were highly accomplished in mathematics in each of the 50 states and in 10 urban districts is compared to the percentages of similarly high achievers in 56 other countries." High-achieving students in the U.S. were outperformed by high achievers from other countries.

A study of 300 Missouri school children from kindegarten to third grade to determine cognitive defects behind dyscalculia or math learning disability