A study of people in Nicaragua has concluded that humans need language in order to understand large numbers. Members of the group were born deaf and never learned Spanish or a formal sign language, ...

Most children learn that written numbers represent quantities in pre-school or junior primary school. Now our new study shows that honeybees too can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much like ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Today we're investigating how numbers can be represented in different ways. It's important that we ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. This is a number line. Hmm. Where should these numbers go? Let's start with the number 50. It's right ...

While they can't pick out precise numbers, animals can comprehend that more is, well, more. A neurobiologist explored the current literature on how different animal species comprehend numbers and the ...

Most people think that only people can understand numbers, but that's not true. Many animals can naturally figure out how much something costs, see patterns, and make decisions based on simple math.