Inviting students to play along with a fictional maths problem game and use their numeracy skills to plan out a party.

Some leaders reduce our math crisis to two words: test scores. For decades, hopes of progress were dashed by flat to ...

The AB 1705 bill, passed by the California Legislature and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on September 30, 2022,  is ...

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

One of the biggest barriers for secondary English learners in math is not computation, but language. The subject’s complex ...

In this video, I compare three methods for dividing polynomials: factoring, long division, and synthetic division. We explore ...

In this video, I explain how to perform synthetic division to solve a polynomial problem, which is a key skill in algebra. We ...

Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those booklets get shared among delegations, then quietly ...

In a recently updated, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, Odrzywołek says he has, in essence, developed a two-button calculator ...

San Francisco is restoring eighth-grade algebra after more than a decade, with the San Francisco Board of Education voting 4-3 Tuesday night to approve the change, reversing a controversial policy ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...