The world's oldest known botanical art, from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia around 6000 BCE, hides fascinating ...

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

Learn how ancient pottery covered in flowers may be humanity’s first attempts at mathematical thinking.

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Explore the roots of math anxiety in students and discover strategies to foster confidence and understanding in mathematics.

Students get to share their favorite family recipes and practice their problem-solving strategies in this engaging math project.

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Chinese online education startup VIPThink, which mainly helps improve children's mathematics thinking ability, in December reached a strategic cooperation with Tsinghua University Press to publish a ...

Humans are born to do math, and they have the brain infrastructure to prove it—including a cluster of specialized nerve cells for processing numbers. Despite this dedicated cluster, mathematical ...