“There are things … where you just stand there and you’re like, ‘At this point, am I teaching math or am I teaching philosophy?’” said Jordan Ellenberg, whose titles at the University of Wisconsin ...

Randomly scramble the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 to form a seven-digit number (or a six-digit number if the leading digit is 0). Rank the following events in order ...

A new study suggests that the strength of an infant's innate sense of numerical quantities can be predictive of that child's mathematical abilities three years later. Babies who are good at telling ...

Math teacher Cara Bearden braces herself for any equation that yields the two numbers, knowing her students will immediately scream them right back at her. “SIX Sevennnnnn,” they squeal with a ...

When you think back on elementary school math, do you have fond memories of the countless worksheets you completed on adding fractions or solving division problems? Probably not. Researchers and ...