If a 6-month-old can distinguish between 20 dots and 10 dots, she’s more likely to be a good at math in preschool. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which finds that part of our proficiency at ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (StudyFinds.org) – Math generally comes easier to some students than others, but could each one of us have instinctual division skills before ever opening a textbook? New research ...

A quick glance at two, unequal groups of paper clips leads most people to immediately intuit which group has more. In a new study, researchers report that practicing this kind of simple, instinctive ...

You graduate middle school with two basic social codes: Hammurabi’s Code and girl code. At thirteen, “an eye for an eye” carries as much weight as “sisters before misters.” So when the internet ...

Signals and systems theory is a tough topic. Terms like convolution and impulse response can be hard to understand on a visceral level and most books that talk about these things emphasize math over ...

Preschool maths games can boost children’s mathematical intuition, according to a large-scale classroom study in India. Moira Dillon at New York University in New York City and her colleagues studied ...