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 ...

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 ...

Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, measuring for a DIY project, or just having a math-related brain teaser thrown your ...

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

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 ...