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

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, displaying one of the earliest pieces of evidence of mathematical thinking.

To do the method, begin by writing the two numbers you want to multiply at the top of two columns. In the left column, you ...

Japan has introduced a new health insurance ID system which uses individual number cards, commonly known as My Number Cards, as the main means of identification required to receive insured medical ...

A first-generation immigrant who left a career in finance to follow his passion for teaching has written an eye-opening new memoir of his experience navigating what he calls "wokeness" in the U.S.

An associate dean at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has publicly called former President Donald Trump a racist and co-authored an academic paper suggesting the American education system, and even ...

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The Racial Justice in Early Math project aims to educate teachers and provide resources to help educators combat racial bias in math instruction. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The ...

An elementary school math question has left not only students but also a seasoned teacher—and much of the internet—scratching their heads. Bobby Seagull, @bobby_seagull, shared the puzzle his friend's ...

An artificial intelligence model developed by Alphabet Inc.’s Google DeepMind unit has won a gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad. The company announced the achievement today, two ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...