Book Harvest in Durham is hosting the 15th annual Dream Big book drive honoring the principles of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Think math is just about numbers and equations? Think again. According to a review analyzing 49 studies with 37,654 participants, reading comprehension has a significantly strong effect on students' ...

The meme exploded into youth culture with a video of a boy who delivers a giddy “six seven” at a basketball game. CAM WILDER Photo: Cam Wilder The name of this fall’s most obnoxious classmate: Six ...

A number sequence has gone viral on the internet this week, reading: 2, 6, 12, 20, 30, ?. At first glance, it looks easy, but once people start solving it, they realize spotting the pattern is not so ...

How a centuries-old math puzzle helped us see inside the human brain. By Steven Strogatz Photo illustrations by Jens Mortensen Each installment of “Math, Revealed” starts with an object, uncovers the ...

‘Seeing’ quantities instantly helps develop flexibility with numbers. By Julie Mountain and Felicity Robinson Perceptual subitising is a crucial skill in developing ‘number sense’. It means the ...

British bookmaker Corbett has been fined almost £700,000 for social responsibility and anti-money laundering (AML) failings, the regulator said. The Gambling Commission said Corbett had agreed to pay ...

At first glance, the 153 looks really meaningless. Yet, it has amazing mathematical properties. Moreover, it was not only explicitly mentioned in the Bible and, for various reasons, brings a smile to ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

If mental arithmetic has you in a panic, it might be bad news for your children. Parents who hate maths have children who are worse at maths, a study suggests. Up to 30 per cent of people have severe ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...