Children who start elementary school with difficulty associating small exact quantities of items with the printed numerals that represent those quantities are more likely to develop a math-related ...

A classic math rule now handles infinity. New work strengthens the math behind physics and unbounded systems. % ...

Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured counting, even though no written numerals existed at the time. The claim is bold: ...

But for animals? Evidence is mounting that other primates, and even birds and fish, can discriminate between quantities differing by only one item, at least up to a quantity of five. Cichlids and ...