Sam Wang has used a combination of computer simulations and simple math tests to help reveal the partisan intent behind the post-2010 redistricting. All this work gave the neuroscientist a new ...

Although math skills are considered notoriously hard to improve, Johns Hopkins University researchers boosted kindergartners' arithmetic performance simply by exercising their intuitive number sense ...

Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, ...

A simple math test can predict who will default on a subprime mortgage, which isn’t good news for the numbers-phobic. The test was part of research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Only 1% with an IQ above 150 can solve this math puzzle in 5 seconds. Are you one of those brilliant minds? Test your ...

Like Liam Neeson in Taken, Presh Talwalkar has a very specific set of skills. They don’t (as far as we know) include hunting down kidnappers and dispatching them in increasingly gruesome and ...

Today’s Seattle Times has a disturbing story about how only one in 10 applicants at a Tacoma manufacturing company pass the simple math test. Eric Hanh, a vice president at General Plastics, said the ...

Data from federal standardized test scores points to another startling effect the COVID-19 pandemic had on America's children, with numbers indicating that reading and math scores for 13-year-olds ...