Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

A by-the-numbers look at our education system shows that the traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students’ needs and more time better spend can help. Expanding learning time, or ELT, ...

Learning numbers in a European language has probably affected your early maths ability. It turns out there are better ways to count. If I asked you to write down the number “ninety-two”, you wouldn’t ...

While Yakima County has one of the higher birth rates in the state, it has been declining. While there were about 4,000 ...

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