The words children use play a critical role in their early success with math. Learn how to bring "math words" into your child ...

Mathematical understanding should be a goal for every student and something they feel capable of achieving. But translating ...

Middle school teachers are now forced to assume multiplicative thinking is secure so they can dive into ratios and algebra.

This Women’s History Month, we look at how women’s innovations have advanced the field of computer programming.

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

Using only the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 and the mathematical operations addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, can you arrive at the value 456? You ...

Here’s a contrarian truth that cuts through much of today’s AI hype: When your AI assistant calculates revenue, bonuses, VAT or financial summaries, it isn’t doing math. It’s telling a convincing ...

Ever wanted to know how engineers made their calculations before digital calculators were on every workbench? [Richard Carpenter] and [Robert Wolf] have just the thing—a sliderule simulator that can ...

A new mathematical shortcut has cut the core calculations inside earthquake ground-shaking simulations by about 1,000 times without sacrificing accuracy. That leap in speed could make it far easier ...

Plenty of our childhoods had at least one math teacher who made the (ultimately erroneous) claim that we needed to learn to do math because we wouldn’t always have a calculator in our pockets. While ...