When confronted with indeterminate problems, young children tend to select only 1 of the possible alternatives. The cause of this inappropriate closure was explored here in 2 studies in which children ...

Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic, Vol. 102, No. 4, Logic and Probability: Reasoning in Uncertain Environments (August 2014), pp. 867-890 (24 pages) Systems of ...

Spatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at math at four years of age, finds a new study. It provides the earliest documented evidence for a relationship between spatial ...

A new study shows how students can better understand and interpret conditional probabilities. A new LMU study shows how students can better understand and interpret conditional probabilities. How ...

Duke University Talent Identification Program researcher Jonathan Wai has an interesting column in which he questions why our educational system doesn't value spatial reasoning as much as it values ...

Solving math riddles is fun, especially when you get them right. But did you know that solving them can also improve your brain power? In fact, research shows that practicing math riddles helps ...

Researchers have introduced Light-R1-32B, a new open-source AI model optimized to solve advanced math problems. It is now available on Hugging Face under a permissive Apache 2.0 license — free for ...