Figure 2: Five-year-old children’s performance on approximate addition, subtraction and comparison problems. What processes underlie children’s symbolic approximate arithmetic? We first considered ...

Randolph Grace receives funding from the Marsden Fund, administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand. University of Canterbury provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. University of ...

AN excellent way to see one’s own country, or one’s own century, is to visit another. While I was making just such a mental pilgrimage to the eighth century, a recent interest in unconventional ...

The 30-year-old math sensation Peter Scholze is now one of the youngest Fields medalists for “the revolution that he launched in arithmetic geometry.” In the run-up to the presentation of the Fields ...

Many children never master fractions. When asked whether 12/13 + 7/8 was closest to 1, 2, 19, or 21, only 24% of a nationally representative sample of more than 20,000 US 8th graders answered ...

In the present operation system, the length of numbers of the significand of the numeral register group and the number of operation Words of micro instructions can be switched on the hardware by ...

Between each pair of terms in this sequence is the amount the sequence is decreasing by. The 𝒏th term refers to a term's position in the sequence, for example, the first term has 𝒏 = 1, the second ...