Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an ...

Here’s a simple number game to play on a rainy day, or while sheltering in place. You and I take turns crossing out numbers from the list {1, 2, 3, …, 9}. The winner is the last person to cross out a ...

Caleb Everett was a 2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. He receives funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Numbers do not exist in all cultures. There are numberless hunter-gatherers embedded ...

Humans are so smart that we can easily learn the difference between even numbers and odd numbers. And until a new study emerged, humans believed we were the only species capable of this feat, known as ...

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 ...