Math struggles in kids may stem from brains that have a harder time learning from mistakes—not just understanding numbers.

A new Stanford study suggests math struggles may be about more than numbers. Children who had difficulty with math were less ...

Children begin to understand number place value by age 3—much earlier than previously believed, according to a new study in Child Development— and they may be ready for more substantive math lessons ...

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 like ...

A study of people in Nicaragua has concluded that humans need language in order to understand large numbers. Members of the group were born deaf and never learned Spanish or a formal sign language, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Hello! Today we are learning how to count one more and one less in a collection of objects. Here are ...

This is part of a series of essays during the COVID-19 pandemic designed to help journalists and all public writers achieve what I have been calling “civic clarity.” That quality in prose comes from ...