An Illinois congresswoman says students’ failure to learn basic reading and math has major economic consequences. During a ...

In a paper published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports, the research team says these animals exhibited the ability to learn basic math, and even use this knowledge to solve little logic ...

Researchers have trained rhesus macaque monkeys to recognize two sets of symbols, with 26 symbols in each set. And the monkeys demonstrated an ability to add them together!

I remember this era well and scrambling to educate my sons on some of the basic life skills that I was negligent in teaching them. Like laundry, for example. Fortunately, in the years since they ...

Dyscalculia is a severe and persistent learning disability in math that affects about 5 to 8 percent of school-age children. Due to its impact on students’ ability to learn and retain basic math ...

Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report But too often teachers spend that crucial year reinforcing basic information students may already know. Research shows that many kindergarteners learn ...

Researchers set out to test whether bees could do math, building on a groundbreaking finding that bees understand the concept of zero. The new study shows bees can be taught to recognize colors as ...

Math Bee It turns out that tiny brains are more capable than previously thought. We already knew various primates, birds, and other animals could solve basic math problems.

Similar to the way your ability to do basic math peaks at age 50, your ability to learn and understand general information — like historical events and political ideas — doesn't reach its ...