Some cultures are fixated on numbers. Others don’t even have words for numbers. And then there’s Bolivia’s Indigenous Tsimane’ community, which has members who can count indefinitely, and others who ...

The most important topic your child learns in Pre-K is developing the concept of number. The most important topic your child learns in Pre-K is developing the concept of number. You can help your ...

Researchers at the University of Tübingen in Germany have new evidence suggesting crows can contemplate the number zero. This ability means the birds join an “elite” group of creatures that can ...

Oldiefan As usual, humans can associate numbers and quantities with the Arabic numeral symbols such as '6' and '32'. Although it is necessary to have high cognitive ability to connect symbols and ...

Neuroscientists discover brain processes which lead to the concept of “zero” on the number line. Zero is a magic number. It stands for emptiness, for nothing -- and yet it is considered one of the ...

Math is famously divisive. Some people like to say they’re not “math people” if they have trouble with the subject (though, that might not actually be a healthy approach). Well, guess who have turned ...

Our ability to think of numbers as abstract concepts is probably innate and even babies barely a few hours old seem to have the ability, researchers say. Abstract numerical thought is the ability to ...

AN excellent way to see one’s own country, or one’s own century, is to visit another. While I was making just such a mental pilgrimage to the eighth century, a recent interest in unconventional ...