Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a ...

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Symmetrical arrangements of botanical motifs indicate a grasp of spatial division long before the advent of formal written numbers.

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Math teacher Emma Chiappetta uses a three-round exercise to help students not only recognize their errors, but also generate ...

The expression "6-7" spread like wildfire last year, making its way outside the realm of usual adolescent slang and into the ...

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

Mathematicians rely on numbers, but finding words to explain different levels of certainty has stymied everyone from the ...