Mathematicians around the world have expressed their belief that a discussion on the overseas bulletin board 4chan may solve a difficult problem called ` `The Minimal Superpermutation Problem,'' which ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

Staring at a page of derivatives or integrals can feel like trying to read a foreign language. Your professor moves fast, the ...

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The employment future looks bright for people with strong math skills. But among the nation’s K-12 students, that represents a small and dwindling demographic. What’s to blame for students’ poor math ...