It’s always fun to test our knowledge with questions from our school days. Sure, we’ve grown up and learned a lot since then, ...

” I posed a simple arithmetic problem that led some readers to rediscover a fundamental law of genetics. Sure, it was already known, but replicating a significant scientific principle just by playing ...

Now, I taught junior high school math for three years, so when I saw this simple equation, I knew I could solve it quickly and I did just that. Before you see my answer, go ahead and solve it for ...

Published in Science Advances on Feb. 6, a team of researchers from Australia and France have shown that bees can perform simple arithmetic, adding and subtracting small numbers by studying colour ...

The basic reason why math fact fluency matters, cognitive scientists say, is that it frees up brainpower or working memory to do more complex mathematical work—like figuring out how to structure ...