Understanding fractions is a critical mathematical ability, and yet it's one that continues to confound a lot of people well into adulthood. New research finds evidence for an innate ratio processing ...

“Do you see the pattern? Each number in the series after the first two numbers is the sum of the preceding two numbers.” That’s how I began my last column focusing on the Fibonacci sequence, which ...

The golden ratio is obtained by looking for a particular rectangle. Let us imagine a rectangle of length b and width a. Inside this rectangle, we draw a square (an x a). We are left with a rectangle ...

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