Good news for aspiring jelly-bean jar estimators who are under 30! Your intuitive grasp of numbers may not have peaked yet. Unlike other cognitive skills, the ability to approximate keeps improving ...

We accept that some people are born with a talent for music or art or athletics. But what about mathematics? Do some of us just arrive in the world with better math skills than others? It seems we do, ...

Many animals are intelligent enough to respond to numbers, but only humans have developed counting systems (Picture: Getty Images/EyeEm) Counting feels utterly effortless to adults, who are unlikely ...

Silke Goebel has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), the British Academy and the Experimental Psychology Society. Counting feels utterly effortless to adults, who are ...