Most of us have little trouble working out how many millilitres are in 2.4 litres of water (it’s 2,400). But the same can’t ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

Binary is a number system that only uses two digits, \(0\) and \(1\). It was invented by German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Binary code is used widely in computer programming, so it is ...

New research suggests the Band of Holes in southern Peru may have been first a market and later an Inca accounting device.

Ars Technica: The Voyager Golden Record is perhaps the best known example of humans attempting to communicate with an alien species, spearheaded by the late Carl Sagan, among others. But what are the ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day.

Thousands of holes arranged in a snake-like pattern on Monte Sierpe in Peru could have been a monumental accounting device ...

The classic case was the 1947 AL MVP race, when Joe DiMaggio edged Ted Williams by a single point -- 202 to 201 -- in the ...

Odyssey Math Tuition launches a Secondary 1 online math tuition elearning course in Singapore, featuring a proprietary ...

Mere decimal points in the vote count can separate a course that finishes in the World Top 100 than one that misses out.

As most of you know, in parallel to my role at ICDP, I have the pleasure (and occasional pain) of leading an emerging dealer ...