When most people picture math lessons, they imagine pencils, paper and desks, not sugar-water rewards and tiny mazes. But one group of cognitive scientists isn’t teaching arithmetic or calculus to ...

The problem-solving strategies used by schooled and unschooled Nigerian children to solve simple addition and subtraction word problems were studied using clinical interviews to find the effect of ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

The internet is torn over an elementary-level math equation, with people suggesting conflicting answers based on their approaches. X users have weighed in on the basic problem - but only a handful ...

Stingrays and zebra mbuna fish can perform simple addition and subtraction involving numbers between 1 and 5. Several studies have shown that fish can tell the difference between higher and lower ...

Scarlett Howard received funding for this project from The Company of Biologists and the Australian Government. Adrian Dyer and Jair Garcia do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding ...

(1) THIS is a clearly printed table of logarithms and antilogarithms to five places with a four figure argument and mean differences. A seven place table of (l+r/100) n for n = 1 to 9 and r = 0.00 to ...