Duah: Using puzzles, both at home and in classrooms, can restore the often-forgotten truth that learning happens in ...

If you’re not sure how to wrap a present, there’s an easy hack you can try. The clever trick—wrap diagonally, not horizontally or vertically—is based in math. Basic geometric principles explain how it ...

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...

The chessboard has been the source of many ingenious puzzles that involve spatial reasoning and insight thinking. The seven ...

Support SSIR’s coverage of cross-sector solutions to global challenges. 1 Fernando Casado Cañeque and Stuart L. Hart, eds., Base of the Pyramid 3.0: Sustainable Development Through Innovation and ...

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

Researchers tested the accuracy of five AI models using 500 everyday math prompts. The results show that there is roughly a ...

athematics is, at its core, an art. Like painters, musicians or writers, mathematicians create and explore new worlds. They ...

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Andrew Bloomenthal has 20+ years of editorial experience as a financial journalist and as a financial services marketing writer. Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more than 20 years of experience ...

Measuring—and delivering—what consumers really want by Eric Almquist, John Senior and Nicolas Bloch When customers evaluate a product or service, they weigh its perceived value against the asking ...

If you could save lives by producing vaccines in transgenic bananas, would you? In the debate over large-scale commercialization and use of GMOs, where should we draw the line? Vaccines Tobacco ...