Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

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While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

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Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems. That includes aligning numbers to add, starting ...