This article is from Proof Positive, our friendly math newsletter that's delivered to your inbox every Tuesday afternoon. Sign up today and read it first. Last week I explained how a then 25-year-old ...

As students move up through the grades in elementary and middle school, math marches relentlessly forward—whether they’re ready or not. Math is a hierarchical field, building sequentially on prior ...

Description: 👉 Learn how to add and subtract mixed numbers. Mixed numbers are numbers with two parts: the whole number part and the fraction part. Mixed numbers are ways to represent improper ...

Dr. Clayton is a mathematician. Candidates for quantitative jobs — like those on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley — are sometimes asked offbeat questions such as: How many Ping-Pong balls fit in a 747 ...

United States sports fans are getting to enjoy a gold medal pursuit in a sport the U.S. hasn't gotten this far in before. The mixed doubles curling Olympics gold medal match is on Tuesday, and before ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego, whose math skills fall below a middle school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past five years, according to a ...

The meme exploded into youth culture with a video of a boy who delivers a giddy “six seven” at a basketball game. CAM WILDER Photo: Cam Wilder The name of this fall’s most obnoxious classmate: Six ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...