The University of California San Diego has reported a staggering 30-fold increase in the number of students unable to do ...

For novices, functions are one of the most intimidating features of OpenOffice.org's Calc. Newcomers quickly learn that functions are a main feature of spreadsheets, but there are almost four hundred, ...

When Manitoba children return to school in September, they will encounter a revised math curriculum that expects them to memorize their times tables and learn to multiply and divide on paper and in ...

During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing earlier this year, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) and Education Secretary Linda McMahon flubbed basic arithmetic by calculating $1.58 billion multiplied ...

Alan Turing, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, John Nash—these “beautiful” minds never fail to enchant the public, but they also remain somewhat elusive. How do some people progress from being able to ...

Expanding our understanding of the relationship between brain size and brain power, researchers discover that bees can do basic arithmetic Researchers have found bees can do basic mathematics, in a ...

In a discovery that could have implications for the development of artificial intelligence, researchers at RMIT in Australia and the University of Toulouse in France have found that bees can do basic ...

Donald Trump's niece has branded him an "incompetent moron" as she accused him of being unable to do "basic" math. Mary Trump, the daughter of Donald's older brother Fred Jr, laid into the president ...

NPR's Emily Feng speaks with Molly Farrell from The Ohio State University on why Ben Franklin included instructions for at-home abortions in his reference book, The American Instructor. Bear with me ...

Baby birds can do arithmetic, say researchers in Italy. Scientists from the universities of Padova and Trento demonstrated chicks' ability to add and subtract objects as they were moved behind two ...