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Over the three years Jordan Ellenberg was writing his book, he repeatedly encountered the same reaction to its subject. “I’d be at a party, and I’d tell someone what my book was about, and then I’d be ...

He was supposed to be working on long-form multiplication problems—457 x 214, 378 x 29, 112 x 978—and my son kept asking me to check his answers. But it had been so long since I’d written out any math ...

Vanderbilt University researcher Erica Zippert recommends that parents encourage young children to recognize patterns and spatial relationships – along with numbers – to get ready to learn math.

Math education can be difficult—for students and teachers. Those difficulties are often magnified when students have learning disabilities such as dyscalculia that can make it difficult to learn ...

It's an old joke that there are three kinds of people in the world: those who are good at math and those who aren't.

Imagine a classroom full of bright young students, all striving to do their best on a high school math test. They sit, heads slightly bowed, pencils ready, each one thinking about how to tackle ...

Despite their “miniature brains,” honeybees can harness both long-term rules and short-term memory in order to solve math problems.