This is part of a series of essays during the COVID-19 pandemic designed to help journalists and all public writers achieve what I have been calling “civic clarity.” That quality in prose comes from ...

Can you run a successful business if you aren’t good with numbers? Yes. There are a lot of entrepreneurs doing just that. But if you believe that you are good at running the business but bad at ...

Numeracy or numerosity, the ability to think about and use numbers, varies among human cultures and within populations, much like intelligence does. Many known languages, for example, have no words ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. When stock markets closed on January 19, 2021, Netflix posted a press release with its end-of-year financial results. Business ...

There wasn't a lot of good news this past week. Coronavirus has now killed more than 7,000 Americans. And the government came out with the stunning prediction that there could eventually be 100,000 to ...