News of a subtle quadratic equation breakthrough has brought algebra forward from the very back of many people’s minds, and algebra is always part of the “when will I ever use this?” rubric people use ...

While educators and policymakers debate whether 8th graders can be readied to learn algebra, Sigrid B. Frawley sits in front of her kindergartners with a magic bag. She puts three tokens in the bag ...

Whether you’re passing secret notes in class or downloading images from a space probe, Reed-Solomon codes offer an ingenious way to embed information and correct for errors. Space exploration requires ...

Algebra has been bugbear for several students since time immemorial. Especially by Class 12, algebra is almost like an inscrutable monster with tentacles going into every other topic in the syllabus, ...

Jesse Schell is, perhaps, the top educational game designer in the business right now. A few months ago I asked him what his favorite educational game was. After a brief pause, he replied, “DragonBox ...

IF you were paying attention in algebra class, you should have no trouble solving this problem that is doing the rounds of the internet. See if you can whisk your mind back to algebra class ... if you ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- Imagine a world without zero: The magic number that has given us everything from simple algebra to quantum physics, which forms the basis of modern computing in binary code and ...