Sam Wang has used a combination of computer simulations and simple math tests to help reveal the partisan intent behind the post-2010 redistricting. All this work gave the neuroscientist a new ...

Like Liam Neeson in Taken, Presh Talwalkar has a very specific set of skills. They don’t (as far as we know) include hunting down kidnappers and dispatching them in increasingly gruesome and ...

Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, ...

Only 1% with an IQ above 150 can solve this math puzzle in 5 seconds. Are you one of those brilliant minds? Test your ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

A simple math test can predict who will default on a subprime mortgage, which isn’t good news for the numbers-phobic. The test was part of research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Although math skills are considered notoriously hard to improve, Johns Hopkins University researchers boosted kindergartners' arithmetic performance simply by exercising their intuitive number sense ...