A Learning and Teaching Scotland report has shown regular use of Nintendo brain-training games improves test scores.
This is, of course, great news for Nintendo, exciting news for primary school kids everywhere, and good news for us, too.
Scottish students with their daily dose of brain-training
Marcus du Sautoy is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College, 
author of Finding Moonshine and The Music of the Primes. Having presented Mindgames and The Music of the Primes on BBC television. He writes for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and The Times and is frequently asked for comment on BBC radio and television. In 2006 he was the Royal Institution Christmas Lecturer.
We get a lot of questions from home-educating parents. And many parents whose children attend school nevertheless want to know how Maths-Whizz can provide a bit of extra stimulation - extension for advanced students, or support for those who are struggling.
Here follows some tips from the, er, finest minds of Maths-Whizz and some thoughts from a home-schooling mum.
For those of us in the northern Hemisphere the Autumn Equinox is just behind us, and our hugely successful Summer Adventure is coming to an end.
“Boo”, I hear you say. But what better opportunity to look back at the methods that made the central American Mayans (in whose wild forests the Professor’s Summer Adventure is set) such pioneers of maths?
