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

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Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...

Frustration is mounting over the growing number of flight cancellations and delays at airports across the United States; ...

Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...

Maybe your rule isn’t 90 days. Maybe it’s 120. Maybe it’s six months,” the Minimalists say. The 80/20 rule dictates that your stuff should take up only 80 percent of a given space — a closet, a drawer ...

MOUNT Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is sold to the world as frozen romance and pure nature. But the real story today is at its feet ...

President Trump signed legislation Wednesday evening to end the federal shutdown after a record-long 43-day stoppage.

For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

The delays and cancellations are likely to get worse as airlines are increasingly unable to reposition planes, pilots and ...

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Professor Raúl Rojas has published a book about how symbols have been used throughout history in mathematics. The work was translated into English this year.