A new study at a Spanish zoo showed the giraffes could do rudimentary mathematics. What animals can do arithmetic?

Researchers found that some animals could “count” carrots in a test—and may have better numerical skills than dogs or horses.

Dylan Kane likes his math curriculum. But there’s one important piece missing, he says. The 7th grade math teacher in Leadville, Colo., uses a program that teaches math skills through real-world ...

A bill moving through the California Legislature would test students as early as kindergarten on math. It's part of an effort ...

Re “UC admissions debacle hurts vulnerable students” (June 14): This commentary was deeply troubling. As a retired teacher, administrator and former K-8 math mentor for a large unified school district ...

This offseason, the Seattle Seahawks lost several of their free agents with players such as Super Bowl MVP running back Kenneth Walker III, safety Coby Bryant, and EDGE Boye Mafe all landing lucrative ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education ...

California’s Math Scores Are Abysmal. Is It Time to Screen Kindergartners for Basic Math Skills? Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on ...

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Here’s a contrarian truth that cuts through much of today’s AI hype: When your AI assistant calculates revenue, bonuses, VAT or financial summaries, it isn’t doing math. It’s telling a convincing ...

Researchers at Stanford and Caltech have found some critical reasoning failures in advanced AI models. LLMs are great at recognizing patterns, but they have trouble with basic logic, social reasoning, ...

Let's keep things simple – this is basic math. Nothing scary. Just everyday calculations, a bit of geometry, some number patterns, and the kind of stuff you definitely learned in school at some point.