It was already known that bees could grasp the concept of zero. However, it appears they are also capable of performing basic addition and subtraction.

Dollar stores used to be a symbol of tight budgets, now they’re a stop for households making six figures. Recent earnings from Dollar Tree, Dollar General, and Walmart all point to the same thing: ...

Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured ...

Hogwarts Legacy is full of secrets, and one of the first puzzles that confuses players is the locked number doors found around the castle. These are often called door puzzles, and they look strange at ...

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, measuring for a DIY project, or just having a math-related brain teaser thrown your ...

UC San Diego says it’s struggling to deal with a large and growing number of freshmen whose math skills are below middle-school level, leaving many unprepared to thrive at an institution famed for its ...

A University of California San Diego report warns that roughly one in eight incoming college students can’t meet middle school math standards. It found that the number of students needing to take ...

President Donald Trump’s proposal to send Americans $2,000 checks funded by his sweeping tariffs is under fire for not adding up. Trump, 79, pledged to send rebates to U.S. citizens who are “low and ...

U.S. employers and colleges are contending with more young people who are behind academically. Some are trying to make up where schools have failed. U.S. employers and colleges are contending with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...

It’s an old joke that there are three kinds of people in the world: those who are good at math and those who aren’t. Tanya Evans, an associate professor in the School of Education and Human ...