Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

Students in some local elementary schools are learning a completely different way of doing multiplication. It’s a technique that many parents can’t understand. It’s called lattice multiplication. The ...

I don’t typically write responses to other opinion pieces, but there was one two weeks ago about new techniques in elementary math education that has inspired me. The main complaint was that there are ...

Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 79, No. 272 (OCTOBER 2010), pp. 2001-2032 (32 pages) We derive in this paper a unified framework for a priori and a posteriori error ...

This post first appeared in Business Insider. The Common Core has come under fire by parents who say the new education standards make math needlessly complicated. Last week, the New York Times’ Motoko ...

AWAY to solve linear differential equations by operational methods which avoid the introduction of arbitrary constants by taking direct account of the initial conditions was invented by Oliver ...

Math riddles are not only fun but can also be a great source of learning if they help us recall some essential mathematical concepts we learned in school. One such concept was the unitary method, ...

Researchers studying the mathematical skills of working children (under 16 years of age) in India recently went around markets in Kolkata buying vegetables, fruits, stationery and other goods from 201 ...

The financial industry increasingly relies on large volumes of numerical data as financial products become more complex. As a result, analysts and financial engineers have turned to computational ...