A unique pattern of brain organization may explain why children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often possess superior math skills. A small brain imaging study showed that children between the ...

During family dinner, we have a tradition. Everyone has to summarize their day by describing three good events and, if necessary, one bad event. When my turn arrived at a recent dinner, I turned to my ...

Helping kids learn patterns can develop math skills. Poughkeepsie Day School, CC BY-NC-SA Parents and teachers know that reading to their children in preschool and kindergarten is important. But how ...

Mathematical patterns reveal profound truths about the universe and, surprisingly, about our inner lives as well. These five visual math concepts offer unique frameworks for understanding our behavior ...

As a grape slowly dries and shrivels, its surface creases, ultimately taking on the wrinkled form of a raisin. Similar patterns can be found on the surfaces of other dried materials, as well as in ...

Why do humans love to look at patterns? I can only guess, but I’ve written a whole book about new mathematical ways to make them. In Creating Symmetry, The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns, I ...

KENOSHA - Few people look at a ball of yarn and a pair of knitting needles and think, well, here's a math problem waiting to be solved. Sara Jensen does. Before she was a mathematician, before she ...