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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the prime ...

Pi Day is celebrated every year on March 14 to honor the mathematical constant π (pi), which represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. The value of pi is approximately ...

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A red knot is a tiny shorebird that makes an epic 9000-mile journey all the way from the arctic to the tip of southern Chile and back. Biologists and nature enthusiasts congregate at various points ...

There has always been a lot of criticism about the complexity of Ford part numbers. The collection of letters and numbers seems at first glance to have little rhyme or reason. But like most things ...

Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the ...