The researchers compared children’s ability to estimate quantity with their level of mathematics achievement. To conduct the study, the researchers gave 71 ninth graders two series of tests designed ...

Quick: How many people did you see on the way home from work the other day? Was it more or less than the day before? Regardless of your answer, it's likely you can't explain what led you to it. Number ...

“It’s about being able to step back and look at your result. Does it make sense?” says Stefan Funk, a particle physicist who ...

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Mathnasium joins us to show us how we can help kids practice counting, measuring, estimating, and problem-solving in a ...

We tackle the problem of high-dimensional nonparametric density estimation by taking the class of log-concave densities on ℝp and incorporating within it symmetry assumptions, which facilitate ...

Math researchers discovered new evidence about math learning disabilities. Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have discovered that the innate ability to estimate quantities is ...