Conceptual problems, ideology clashes and xenophobia prevented the concept of zero from catching on for a long time. Today ...

Superintendent of Instruction Kelsey Secor and her district curriculum team recommended new curriculum for high school level math at the Prescott Unified School District board meeting Tuesday, May 6.

Middletown's South Fire District put on an event in partnership with Beman Middle School to show students how the math they are learning can help save lives.

For centuries, one of algebra’s oldest puzzles has remained unsolved—how to find exact answers for higher-degree polynomials, ...

Math fluency requires more than just memorizing facts and procedures, but also knowing how and when to use them.

Ah, math. Take an easy problem we all studied in our teens, scale it up by just a couple of steps, and suddenly you’re facing ...

Kindergartners would be taught to count to 100 and learn the concepts of virtue and sin. Seventh-graders would be taught about ratios and “God’s work in history.” High-schoolers would be required to ...

Ariba Mobin never loved math but was always there to help her son with his school work. When the problems got too hard, she ...

Diophantus of Alexandria revolutionized algebra with Arithmetica, pioneering symbolic notation and abstract number theory.

A UNSW professor claims that a long-standing algebra problem can be solved with a new method that avoids irrational numbers.

A polynomial is a type of algebraic equation that involves variables raised to a non-negative power — for example, x² + 5x + ...

New research details an intriguing new way to solve "unsolvable" algebra problems that go beyond the fourth degree – ...