The world's oldest known botanical art, from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia around 6000 BCE, hides fascinating ...

This discovery, researchers noted, contributes to “ethnomathematics,” a field that explores mathematics through culture.

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

Learn how ancient pottery covered in flowers may be humanity’s first attempts at mathematical thinking.

As India advances toward an AI-enabled, innovation-oriented economy, cultivating this mindset among children is no longer ...

A new study reveals that the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia (c. 6200–5500 BCE) produced the earliest systematic plant imagery in prehistoric art, flowers, shrubs, branches, and trees painted ...

Elementary teachers can talk with students one-on-one to probe their thinking and learn things that might be missed with traditional assessments.

Learning mathematics is much like learning a new language — it opens doors that were once closed. Rather than seeing ...

Humans are born to do math, and they have the brain infrastructure to prove it—including a cluster of specialized nerve cells for processing numbers. Despite this dedicated cluster, mathematical ...