Children who are skilled in understanding how shapes fit together to make recognizable objects also have an advantage when it comes to learning the number line and solving math problems, research at ...

New research conducted with deaf people in Nicaragua shows that language may play an important role in learning the meanings of numbers. New research conducted with deaf people in Nicaragua shows that ...

A new study finds that in a Bolivian rainforest society, children learn to count just like in the United States, but on a delayed timetable. American children learn the meanings of number words ...

Prime numbers are positive integers greater than 1 that can only be divided evenly by 1 and themselves. These numbers are important in many areas of mathematics, including number theory, cryptography, ...