After more than two years of public fretting over AI models as future threats to human civilization or the seedlings of ...

This discovery, researchers noted, contributes to “ethnomathematics,” a field that explores mathematics through culture.

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

New research suggests that the way brain networks reorganize moment-to-moment predicts autism severity. Children who spent ...

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Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

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 ...

As the artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing industries explode, trained STEM professionals are in high demand. Mathematics is foundational to these fields. But mathematics is missing an ...

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. A male ornate boxfish with distinctive, complex patterns of stripes and ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...