Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

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Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

In 2023-24 at Samish Elementary, only 21% of students were consistently showing grade-level knowledge. The next year, that number jumped to 44%. School officials credit targeted efforts by teachers ...

Edward Doolittle's trailblazing work in Indigenous mathematics considers the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual dimensions of the subject. A Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) mathematics associate ...

Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured ...

Picture a CFO scanning a cash-flow model where one interest rate cell sits off by a single percentage point. The spreadsheet ...

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

Some people think 2+2=5... and they might be right. A statistician explains how abstract math can have real-world limitations.

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...