The world's oldest known botanical art, from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia around 6000 BCE, hides fascinating ...

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

This discovery, researchers noted, contributes to “ethnomathematics,” a field that explores mathematics through culture.

Learn how ancient pottery covered in flowers may be humanity’s first attempts at mathematical thinking.

As India advances toward an AI-enabled, innovation-oriented economy, cultivating this mindset among children is no longer ...

Elementary teachers can talk with students one-on-one to probe their thinking and learn things that might be missed with traditional assessments.

There is a chasm between modernity and tradition, science and religion, skepticism and faith, the Devil and God. In the secular West, the Enlightenment Era separated church from state and removed God ...

Learning mathematics is much like learning a new language — it opens doors that were once closed. Rather than seeing ...

Humans are born to do math, and they have the brain infrastructure to prove it—including a cluster of specialized nerve cells for processing numbers. Despite this dedicated cluster, mathematical ...