Stanford Medicine Feb 9 2026 On a simple math task - indicating which of two amounts is greater - kids with math learning disability get the right answer as often as their good-at-math peers, but behind the scenes, their brains are working differently, a new Stanford Medicine study has found. The differences shed light on what causes their math struggles. The findings, which will be published online Feb. 9 in the Journal of Neuroscience , show that children with a math learning disability are