PBS

Brain Break: Five-Finger Mindfulness Exercise for Kids

Your hand is a starfish. Trace all around it while taking deep breaths to practice spatial words. Pretend your hand is a starfish. Hold it up, with your fingers spread wide. Take your other hand and ...
Parade

50 Math Memes to Add Some Fun, Subtract Some Stress, and Multiply Your Laughter In Your Life50 Math Memes to Add Some Fun, Subtract Some Stress, and Multiply Your Laughter In ...

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Los Angeles Times

Citing ‘severe’ math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM applicants

Hundreds of UC faculty are urging a return of SAT or ACT test requirements for STEM applicants, citing math deficits after six years of being test-free. A UC San Diego report of soaring math ...
Forbes

Why Do Our Fingers Get Wrinkly In Water? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Science dismissed the wrinkly finger as osmosis for a century. The real answer runs through ...
New York Post

How the size of your fingers can predict if you’re gay or straight: study

Lady Gaga was right all along: You were born this way. In what will surely prompt schoolyard kids around the globe to start comparing their hands in between rounds of monkey bars, a new review out of ...
AOL

80 Math Memes For Those Who No Longer Need To Count On Their Fingers

Urban legends about how much students and people hate math might be exaggerated. While we're in school, many of us consider the subject impenetrable. However, at least in England, mathematics has been ...
News Medical

Finger counting in early childhood boosts later math performance

Children who count on their fingers between ages 4 and 6 1/2 have better addition skills by age 7 than those who don't use their fingers, suggesting that finger counting is an important stepping stone ...
The Conversation

A new study shows little kids who count on their fingers do better at maths

If you ask a small child a simple maths question, such as 4+2, they may count on their fingers to work it out. Should we encourage young children to do this? This seemingly simple question is ...
EurekAlert!

For young children, finger-counting a stepping stone to higher math skills

Children who count on their fingers between ages 4 and 6 1/2 have better addition skills by age 7 than those who don’t use their fingers, suggesting that finger counting is an important stepping stone ...
The Atlantic

‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...
Bleeping Computer

Decades-old ‘Finger’ protocol abused in ClickFix malware attacks

The decades-old "finger" command is making a comeback,, with threat actors using the protocol to retrieve remote commands to execute on Windows devices. In the past, people used the finger command to ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math

That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...