“Montessori math” seems to have become a buzzword around Durango when it comes to elementary education. But what exactly is it? Beyond the enticing, colorful wooden materials, it is an approach based ...

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Researchers have leveraged machine learning to interpret human brain scans, allowing the team to uncover the regions of the brain behind how abstract concepts, like justice, ethics and consciousness, ...

You all know the score. A train leaves one city travelling at 35 miles per hour and another races toward it at 25 miles an hour from a city 60 miles away. How long do they take to meet in the middle?

The humble pigeon, our urban counterpart, has proven through decades of experiments that it is capable of complex thought. Now, scientists have shown that these "rats with wings" can even understand ...

A new study challenges the common practice in many classrooms of teaching mathematical concepts by using "real-world," concrete examples. Researchers found that college students who learned a ...

When you can connect ideas, see beyond the obvious, and imagine hypothetical scenarios, you're using a skill known as abstract thinking. Also known as abstract reasoning, it involves the ability to ...