This is a collection of math quizzes for those among you who want to see if you remember all the math you learned in elementary, middle, and high school. Not just one quiz, but many! Have fun, nerd. 1 ...
If you have only 10 years left before you retire, and you only have half of what you need, don't worry, you still may be OK. I met a 55-year-old couple the other day who wanted to retire at age 65.
A graphic artist is testing everyone’s knowledge of the mathematical order of operations with a string of numbers and missing arithmetic symbols. Gergely Dudás, of Budapest, Hungary, shared the new ...
I’ve been out of school a long time (I mean a long time), yet I think I’m still pretty good at basic math. I’m always able to figure out whether a “bargain buy” at the supermarket is actually a ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike ...
These Durham kids are learning otherwise. DURHAM, N.C. -- On a chilly Friday afternoon in December, some twenty sixth-graders at Durham’s Central Park School for Children huddled together in groups of ...
For years, math was something you either get or you don't. But it doesn't have to be that way, according to several Green Bay ...
In second grade, I stopped being able to do math. One night I went to do my long-division homework and I couldn’t figure it out. My mom demanded that I sit with my math teacher because my sudden ...
Toward the end of last school year, I sat on a virtual mathematics panel discussing the resilience of students in the face of COVID-19’s traumatic educational consequences. I began to examine the ...
A new study finds that high school students identify more with math if they see their math teacher treating everyone in the class equitably, especially in racially diverse schools. While the ...