“…It is the first special issue containing a collection of studies that use neuroscientific methods to examine mathematics learning that is published in a leading mathematics education journal. Moreover, this issue is not restricted to elementary number processing, but addresses explicitly arithmetical and mathematical skills that are formally taught in school, such as arithmetic (Menon, 2010), word problem solving (Lee et al, 2010;Obersteiner et al, 2010), geometry (Stavy & Babai, 2010;Bornemann et al, 2010), algebra (Thomas et al, 2010), and connecting, at least in terms of the mathematics subjects that are investigated, clearly to school mathematics.…”