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 ...

Crows are arguably the mathematicians of the bird world. Research shows they can count up to five, understand the concept of ...

An understanding of numbers is often viewed as a distinctly human faculty—a hallmark of our intelligence that, along with language, sets us apart from all other animals. Practically every animal that ...

New nationwide program gets kids marching, “math-ing” and having fun Bedtime Math provided instructions on how to run the math activities, as well as copies of Bedtime Math The Preschool Place & ...

For those who struggled with math, this might not be intuitive, but animals in general are quite good at it. Your math teacher would be happy to hear that. Indeed, what we call "numerical competence" ...

Savvy for judging quantities is turning up across the animal kingdom — even among spiders and other invertebrates, Susan Milius reported in “Animal math” (SN: 12/10/16, p. 22). Some astute readers ...