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While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...

Children who count on their fingers between ages 4 and 6 1/2 have better addition skills by age 7 than those who don’t use their fingers, suggesting that finger counting is an important stepping stone ...

Leila and Sahar are attending a dinner party with four other couples. Each attendee knows their partner, but they may or may not know anyone else there. Before the five couples sit down to eat, anyone ...

The idea of an animal that can count or do math might sound like something out of a viral news story or TikTok video. But a sense of quantity, sometimes called "numerosity," appears across a ...

Many animals have a sense of quantity, but they don't count or do math the way humans do. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The actress and mathematician says her latest release, out this fall, is all about “creating a happy, safe association with numbers” for ...

Opening Shot: Through the frame of an awning, we see a drone flying. “Bagdhad, Iraq.” The Gist: A mom takes her daughter to an ice cream parlor. When she realizes that she doesn’t have enough cash, ...

This year’s census of homeless people will include only those housed in shelters. In 2024, volunteers across Oahu approached homeless people, asking questions and giving out bags of essentials.

The absence of modern-day calculators did not stop ancient cultures from performing extraordinary feats of mathematics. The ancient Greeks kept count with abaci, frames with rods or grooves for moving ...