A version of this puzzle originally appeared in the October 1960 issue of Scientific American. What’s the Most Distant Galaxy ...

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 ...

Preschool teachers have different views on finger counting. Some teachers consider finger counting use in children to signal that they are struggling with math, while others associate its use as ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A lot of people dislike math, but neuroscientist Brian Butterworth remembers one young man who ...

Barbie's vocational choice is apparently no match for deep-seated notions about girls and math in the United States. The doll's much-ballyhooed decision last year to choose computer engineering as her ...

A recent study caused waves in the pet world when it suggested that dogs might have an intelligence edge over cats, but don’t jump to conclusions so quickly. Quite a few other studies have shown that ...

May 1, 2005 -- -- At first glance (and maybe the second one too), narrative and mathematics don't seem to be natural companions, but recent years have made the juxtaposition much more common. There ...