You all know the score. A train leaves one city travelling at 35 miles per hour and another races toward it at 25 miles an hour from a city 60 miles away. How long do they take to meet in the middle?

Mathematics might seem intimidating at first glance, but understanding its symbols is like learning to read a new language, one that opens doors to science, technology, and logical thinking. Whether ...

Hyesang Chang and colleagues, from Stanford University, explored why some children struggle to learn math compared to their peers in a new JNeurosci paper. Children selected which numbers were bigger ...

On a simple math task - indicating which of two amounts is greater - kids with math learning disability get the right answer ...

Most children learn that written numbers represent quantities in pre-school or junior primary school. Now our new study shows that honeybees, too, can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much ...