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Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured ...

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...

Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.

Isaac Newton did not just invent calculus and rewrite physics, he also tried to calculate the end of the world with the same cool confidence he brought to falling apples and planetary orbits. In ...

In a new Nature Physics study, researchers created particle-like so-called “vortex knots” inside chiral nematic liquid crystals, a twisted fluid similar to those used in LCD screens. For the first ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

The meme exploded into youth culture with a video of a boy who delivers a giddy “six seven” at a basketball game. CAM WILDER The name of this fall’s most obnoxious classmate: Six Seven. Math teacher ...