(TNS) — Almost 30 years ago, a group of Kaktovik students invented a numbering system that reflected the way they counted in Iñupiaq and made math more intuitive for them. Soon, anyone in the world ...

On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

Children who start elementary school with difficulty associating small exact quantities of items with the printed numerals that represent those quantities are more likely to develop a math-related ...

Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

Scientific American presents Math Dude by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. Do you think math is fun? I absolutely think that it should be.

Roman numerals are a numeral system which was used in Ancient Rome. It uses letters instead of numbers to represent values. You may have seen Roman numerals on clocks and on TV or film credits. Why ...

There’s a joke that goes like this: Roman numerals. What are they good IV? It’s a nice little number pun, but honestly, Roman numerals aren’t good for much — just try doing your taxes with them. By ...

Another year adds another Roman numeral to the NFL's biggest game: the Super Bowl. This year, that number stands as LVI: three numerals that, added together, result in the latest Super Bowl edition.

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

Another year, another Super Bowl. And another Super Bowl Roman numeral. We're fast approaching Super Bowl 57 between the Eagles and the Chiefs, the official title of which is Super Bowl LVII. NFL fans ...