Some captive elephants create paintings or even smash and consume giant pumpkins in Halloween kickoff events, but what about their mathematical abilities? Three Asian elephants named Artit (a ...

Authai the Asian elephant is no Dumbo. She can’t fly, but she can do math. At the Ueno Zoo in Japan, scientists successfully taught the 14-year-old pachyderm to compare numerical quantities using a ...

When the arithmetic-performing celebrity horse Clever Hans was exposed as a phony in 1907, we lost faith in the math skills of our animal kin. But new research shows Clever Hans’ owner should have ...

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think” – a quote by Margaret Meed, rightfully sums up the current issue that pertains to the world education system. It’s a mystery how the world ...