You can add or subtract numbers in lots of different ways. You can use number lines, number bonds, fact families, 10 squares and counters, or even just writing the numbers down. Sometimes it is faster ...

Mental maths is when you do calculations in your head instead of writing them down. Sometimes, it's just as quick to do calculations in your head as it is to write down every step. You can add and ...

Scarlett Howard received funding for this project from The Company of Biologists and the Australian Government. Adrian Dyer and Jair Garcia do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding ...

The humble honeybee can use symbols to perform basic maths including addition and subtraction, shows new research published today in the journal Science Advances. DESPITE HAVING A brain containing ...

Scientists believe stingrays and zebra mbuna fish can do simple maths involving addition and subtraction of numbers between one and five. It follows a study at the University of Bonn, in Germany, ...

Scarlett Howard teaches math to honeybees. She began with a few hives on a concrete balcony at RMIT University in Melbourne, when she was a doctoral candidate in zoology. Today, at the University of ...

Mathematics students face challenges with rational and irrational numbers. Understanding the principles and patterns simplifies this concept. Rational numbers can be fractions of integers. Irrational ...

Martin Kruskal, a mathematician at Rutgers university in New Jersey, has two brothers, both of whom are also mathematicians. When my older brother’s oldest child was five, Kruskal recalls, he argued ...