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I would say it is highly unlikely. The report that you reference is the savant Daniel Tammet who has performed many impressive mental feats, including holding the European record for most recited digits of pi. He has been popularized in the media in such documentaries as "Brain Man". He claims that he is able to accomplish such mathematical feats because of ...

I don't know of research that answers this question directly, but I'm going to guess the answer is no, it wouldn't help, based on the following reasoning. First, people tend to learn math less well when superfluous visual richness is added. I think adding color to numbers counts as superfluous visual richness. Brown, M. C., McNeil, N. M., & ...

Difficulty of an item could be operationalised in a variety of ways: probability of getting the item correct, amount of time required to complete, amount of resources required to complete, etc. Item response theory perspective That said, in the item response theory literature item difficulty is typically synonymous with a parameter related to probability ...

There is a huge amount of research on this topic, particularly in developmental psychology. Siegler: As @Joel has noted, Robert S. Siegler provides a great entry point into this literature (see his list of selected publications with PDFs). He has done a lot of research on the strategies that children use to solve mathematical problems. His research includes ...