The Quipu superstructure is enormous, spanning 1.4 billion light years – and it could violate one of our fundamental assumptions about the universe ...

A new approach to math instruction this year at West Elementary School breaks lessons into smaller, bite-size pieces.

Unlike Roman, Maya or Iñupiaq numerals, this isn’t a total reimagining of numbers. Instead, it’s an uncanny parallel universe. Any number without zeros retains its old appearance (1,776 is still 1,776 ...

While this shift eliminates typical weather-related counting obstacles, indoor venues present their own measurement challenges for crowd scientists. The question of attendance numbers is likely to ...

To do so, they ended up making a surprising connection to another area of math. It wasn’t possible for Green and Sawhney to directly count the number of primes made by squaring two other primes ...

Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the early universe, one of the strangest are objects that astronomers now call "little red dots." Like the ...

The holes were used for counting and were arranged in the shape of a person. Doban-kun, which means "flat clay man" in Japanese, is 2.3 inches (5.8 centimeters) tall and 1.5 inches (3.7 cm ...