A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

Helena Osana received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for this research. Jairo A. Navarrete-Ulloa receives funding from the National Agency for Research and ...

Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an ...

Place value describes the position of a digit in a number. It also gives the value of each digit in a number. Hundred squares, number lines, bundles of straws and tens and ones blocks can be really ...

Damian Scarf at New Zealand's University of Otago reports in the current issue of the journal Science that experiments he conducted with colleagues show that pigeons can learn abstract rules about ...