New employment statistics suggest California’s job market has been significantly weaker than previously reported. My trusty spreadsheet took a stab at estimating the geeky math that turned into a high ...

Leila and Sahar are attending a dinner party with four other couples. Each attendee knows their partner, but they may or may not know anyone else there. Before the five couples sit down to eat, anyone ...

The idea of an animal that can count or do math might sound like something out of a viral news story or TikTok video. But a sense of quantity, sometimes called "numerosity," appears across a ...

Many animals have a sense of quantity, but they don't count or do math the way humans do. The idea of an animal that can count or do math might sound like something out of a viral news story or TikTok ...

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds' math proficiency bill passed the Senate with bipartisan support, sending it to her desk for her signature. The bill mandates K-6 math testing three times annually, with more ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

The absence of modern-day calculators did not stop ancient cultures from performing extraordinary feats of mathematics. The ancient Greeks kept count with abaci, frames with rods or grooves for moving ...

GRASS LAKE, MI - With almost four decades of teaching to his name, Brad Coffey still strives to match his students’ energy in the classroom. He needs to, given the subject he teaches. Coffey, 60, has ...

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Four years ago, Marquies Gray Jr. and his younger brother, Mason, were struggling to solve math problems. Their mother, Lavonzell Nicholson, enrolled them in a tutoring program called Make It Count ...

Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and ...