More than 150 years ago, the economist and philosopher William Stanley Jevons discovered something curious about the number four. While musing about how the mind conceives of numbers, he tossed a ...

Around 2,500 years ago, Babylonian traders in Mesopotamia impressed two slanted wedges into clay tablets. The shapes represented a placeholder digit, squeezed between others, to distinguish numbers ...

On Wednesday, 4 January 2023, the U.K.’s Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, made his first major speech of the year, proposing to reform education by putting a focus on maths being taught for all pupils up ...

The danger, though, is when we think that numbers are “truth” and stories are not, or when numbers are more important than words. What I see in my work is that the stories of people are central to our ...