Language can influence how quickly kids learn to count – but does it make a difference in the long run? Is 2/3 bigger than 3/5? How quickly and confidently you can answer this question may depend on ...

Post written by Aneta Pavlenko. It is often said that bilinguals continue using their first language for simple arithmetic operations, such as addition or multiplication, long after they shifted to ...

A new study suggests children do not need to know the words for numbers in order to be able to count, and that basic mathematical ability is hard-wired in the human genome. Study co-author and ...

An Amazonian language with only 300 speakers has no word to express the concept of "one" or any other specific number, according to a new study from an MIT-led team. An Amazonian language with only ...