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 ...

Bilinear forms and character sums have emerged as pivotal tools in analytic number theory, offering robust frameworks for investigating sums wherein variables interact multiplicatively. Bilinear forms ...

Unlike scores of class X students who suffer from math phobia, for 16-year old Mayank Nema, complicated arithmetic sum is literally a child’s play. INDORE: Unlike scores of class X students who suffer ...

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 ...

These little geniuses can crack complex three digit arithmetic sums in seconds. In fact, they can even attempt as many as 70 arithmetic sums in just 5 minutes. Their trick is mental maths with the ...

A long-standing puzzle seems to constrain how addition and multiplication relate to each other. A graduate student has gone further than anyone else in establishing the connection. In 1983 the ...