Scientists have found that the strength of communication between the left and right hemispheres of the brain predicts performance on basic arithmetic problems. The findings shed light on the neural ...

In a discovery that could have implications for the development of artificial intelligence, researchers at RMIT in Australia and the University of Toulouse in France have found that bees can do basic ...

Expanding our understanding of the relationship between brain size and brain power, researchers discover that bees can do basic arithmetic Researchers have found bees can do basic mathematics, in a ...

A new study found giraffes can estimate quantities and understand simple numerical changes, suggesting basic arithmetic ...

New research provides brain imaging evidence that students well-versed in very basic single digit arithmetic (5+2=7 or 7-3=4) are better equipped to score higher on the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude ...

For novices, functions are one of the most intimidating features of OpenOffice.org's Calc. Newcomers quickly learn that functions are a main feature of spreadsheets, but there are almost four hundred, ...

Though generations of schoolchildren have cursed arithmetic, the world was a much more inconvenient place without it. Before the advent of modern arithmetic in the 13th century, basic calculations ...

Richard Elwes reports on Harvey Friedman’s fascinating work on incompleteness in Boolean relation theory, but it is quite a stretch to extend his work to ask “are the rules of arithmetic… unsound?” ...