Almost 30 years ago, a group of Kaktovik students invented a numbering system that reflected the way they counted in Iñupiaq and made math more intuitive for them. Soon, anyone in the world will be ...

At Pasadena City College, college algebra for STEM majors is labeled Math 003. At Cypress College, it’s Math 141-C and at Napa Valley, it’s Math 106. For anyone hoping to enroll in the same course at ...

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Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured ...

For 50 years, mathematicians have believed that the total number of real numbers is unknowable. A new proof suggests otherwise. In October 2018, David Asperó was on holiday in Italy, gazing out a car ...

Have you ever sat in a math classroom and wondered, “When will I ever use this?” You might have asked yourself this question when you first encountered “imaginary” numbers, and with good reason: What ...

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The solution exists for a compromise between Republicans and Democrats—and it’s all in the numbers. Let me finish tonight with this. We have been left a great number system. It was developed by Arab ...

As a reward for its recent good behavior, my daughter’s 4th grade class was preparing to vote on an animated movie to watch in class. And as a mathematician and college professor with a particular ...

Time to test your brain! Are you a puzzle person? Most of these hard math problems aren’t straightforward arithmetic. They challenge you to look at problems a different way, testing your logic and ...