Imagine you’re a hunter-killer robot, hovering over the broken wasteland that used to be the world of men. You have surprised a group of biologicals in an act of petty insurrection, and they have ...

Knowing how precisely a high school freshman can estimate the number of objects in a group gives you a good idea how well he has done in math as far back as kindergarten, researchers at The Johns ...

Millions of high school and college algebra students are united in a shared agony over solving for x and y. For those to whom the answers don't come easily, it gets worse: Most preschoolers and ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

Having a poor "gut sense" of numbers can lead to a mathematical learning disability and difficulty in achieving basic math proficiency. This inaccurate number sense is just one cause of math learning ...

Halberda (who is an assistant professor within the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the Johns Hopkins’ Krieger School of Arts and Sciences) stated in a September 7, 2008 Johns Hopkins ...

Playing a math game designed to encourage practicing the basic “number sense” all children are born with improved the ability of young children in a study to do math, Johns Hopkins University ...

New research reveals honeybees' number sense, showing they can distinguish visual quantities up to four, challenging past beliefs. Honeybees have the ability to distinguish and remember visual ...

Knowing how precisely a high school freshman can estimate the number of objects in a group gives you a good idea how well he has done in math as far back as kindergarten, researchers at The Johns ...

Millions of high school and college algebra students are united in a shared agony over solving for x and y, and for those to whom the answers don't come easily, it gets worse: Most preschoolers and ...