Researchers also gave children a math test and found that children who scored higher tended to have parents who talked about math more during the observation period.

Parents, guardians and other community members are being recruited and trained as math tutors for students who have fallen behind.

Prime numbers—numbers divisible only by 1 and themselves—have long fascinated mathematicians. This year a researcher discovered the largest known prime number, with a whopping 41,024,320 ...