Dr. Penelope Maddy, who is a professor emeritus of logic and philosophy of science and mathematics at U.C. Irvine, is a prominent American philosopher of logic, science and mathematics known for ...

The Numberblocks Make and Play game helps preschoolers to develop a strong understanding of numbers helping them to find the ...

The task seems simple, but Williams’ goal was to bolster students’ “number sense” — a difficult-to-define skill, but one that is nevertheless essential for more advanced mathematics. One student with ...

Tricky maths question asks 'which number is bigger' - and it's harder than it looks A difficult maths question has left people scratching their heads as while it might look straightforward to some ...

Affecting somewhere from 2.5 to 7.5 percent of the population, dyscalculia, “sometimes called number blindness and likened to dyslexia for maths,” won’t just preclude you from a happy career ...

Doing math is thought to be a uniquely human skill. We can learn the abstract concept of a number: two things or three things or four things; we can represent that concept symbolically (2, 3, 4 ...

Because when you talk about math achievement and number knowledge, it's not a single solitary construct. Over the two years of preschool, we gave them 12 different tasks — twice a year.

And the primes 13,331, 15,551, 16,661, 19,991 and 72,227 and 1,777,771 are all examples of palindromic numbers. These are numbers that remain the same when the digits are reversed. Magic number 7.

Achebe’s children number ano (four). In Iceland, they would say fjögur. — Excerpted from Thinking in Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math, by Daniel Tammet, out now from Little, Brown.