Bees can do basic arithmetic Date: February 7, 2019 Source: RMIT University Summary: Researchers set out to test whether bees could do math, building on a groundbreaking finding that bees ...

You may never have heard of modular arithmetic, but you use it every day without the slightest difficulty. In this system, numbers wrap around when they reach a certain size called the modulus; it ...

"Fifteen to 20 years ago, the well-accepted position was that doing additions, subtraction, basic arithmetic is something we can do as humans, something very special about us," Dr Dyer said.

Bee brains contain less than one million neurons. Despite this, new research shows the honeybee can use symbols to perform basic maths, including addition and subtraction.

Pearla Nesher, Tamar Katriel, A Semantic Analysis of Addition and Subtraction Word Problems in Arithmetic, Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Oct., 1977), pp. 251-269 ...