Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the ...

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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 ...

A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the prime numbers. The primes — numbers that are only divisible by themselves ...