Culpeper County Public Schools held its annual division wide Math 24 competition March 19 at Floyd T. Binns Middle School, ...

In a recently updated, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, Odrzywołek says he has, in essence, developed a two-button calculator that can compute the standard repertoire of a scientific calculator familiar ...

We all know beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But perhaps intelligence is too? After all, there are plenty of different ...

Learn how to write the explicit formula for the nth term of an arithmetic sequence. A sequence is a list of numbers/values exhibiting a defined pattern. A number/value in a sequence is called a term ...

Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, ...

In the 1930s and 1940s, for example, a group of Polish mathematicians regularly met in a café in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

The companies making real operational progress are not adding new technology. They are removing work. In my previous article, I argued that digital transformation keeps stalling because mid-market ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

Working in secret for more than two years, a group of mathematicians has set out to resolve of the longest and most bitter ...