This is part of a series of essays during the COVID-19 pandemic designed to help journalists and all public writers achieve what I have been calling “civic clarity.” That quality in prose comes from ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Hello! Today we're learning how to name ordinal numbers up to five. Let's start with first. Imagine you ...

Most people think that only people can understand numbers, but that's not true. Many animals can naturally figure out how much something costs, see patterns, and make decisions based on simple math.