Here's why math fact fluency matters, and what we know from research about teaching strategies and timed exercises.

From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication ...

Stingrays and a fish called cichlid showed they could learn simple addition and subtraction if offered food as a reward.

But a sense of quantity, sometimes called "numerosity," appears across a surprising range of species. So, which animals can count and understand simple math?

Every so often its good to exercise your brain with a math problem or two that forces you to recall principles you learned decades prior. Can you solve 5+5x5+5 without a hitch?

A simple arithmetic problem has left internet users scratching their heads - with only a few landing on the correct solution to this elementary school-level equation.

“People will think, ‘That must be easy.’” But the math problem underlying Alice’s dilemma — called the reachability problem for vector addition systems — is surprisingly subtle. While some cases can ...