Researchers have demonstrated, using a novel approach, that the original solution to Dudeney’s famous dissection problem is indeed the optimal one. In 1907, English author and mathematician Henry Erne ...

Step 1: Read (and reread) the word problem. First, encourage students to read the word problem in its entirety, in order to ...

“If you write math the right way, everything is crystal clear,” he says. In this equation, for example, had 4×4 been in ...

President Donald Trump has advocated for the elimination of the federal DE and ... the country is going to go bankrupt. That’s just math,” said Aragona, noting he supports getting rid of ...

ROCKPORT, Maine — As the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for health secretary heads to a final vote, and the national conversation around vaccines intensifies, it’s worth examining Maine’s ...

In 2023, for example, the Mint made more nickels than ... the units you are much more likely to encounter when doing math at the scale of the federal budget. Policy decisions on paper currency ...

But rather than shut them out altogether, the reformed calculus classes try to strengthen those basic math skills while teaching the more advanced calculus topics, she said. For example, an assignment ...