Bringing elementary students outside for math lessons provides a welcome change of pace and a chance for new activities.

Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, ...

There’s that molding in the foyer (“I had to relearn math for this”), the laundry-room countertop she cut and varnished (“My first time using a saw”), the drywall she faux-lime-washed ...

The birds' work involves basically playing computer games that are designed to tease out how much they know about math. For this ... or irregular quadrilaterals. The crows might see, for example ...

Geometry isn’t just about math classes or architectural blueprints ... found they could not consistently recognize regular quadrilaterals. That led some scientists to believe geometric insight might ...