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"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

When a program runs and produces a good result, it's perfect. It's awfully hard to define success the same way in the humanities. What we do, teaching or writing, can always be better. The program will never simply run.

Differences in classroom instruction and curriculum may be partly to blame. But cultural differences in computational ability may have their roots in the words that different cultures use to represent numbers.

There are some tricks that adults can use to increase digit memory span. These tricks can also be taught to young students at the appropriate age.

scientists from the University of Chicago reported that young children who understand how shapes fit together are better able to use a number line and to solve computation problems.

“One stereotype we have not been able to break in the United States is that ‘faster is smarter,’ ”

“Sometimes it’s the person who is more reflective and introspective about thinking through the problem and might take a little longer to get to the answer who illustrates more understanding of the mathematics involved.”

students learn math best when the focus is on exploration and understanding, not just regurgitation and computation

Gamers have solved the structure of a retrovirus enzyme whose configuration had stumped scientists for more than a decade.