MATH is not an easy subject. For many, the corollary conclusion is that learning math is unavoidably unpleasant. Test results support that view. The Trends in International Mathematics and Science ...

In an entertaining and effective math primer, two children solve a haunted house's riddles using algebra. "The two sides of each equation are balanced. They're equal," Adler explains, before ...

It's been said that there are only seven basic plots in fiction. Pulp novelist William Wallace Cook would beg to differ. According to Cook, there are a whopping 1,462 plots, all of which he laid out ...

Eric Larson and Isabel Vogt have solved the interpolation problem — a centuries-old question about some of the most basic objects in geometry. Some credit goes to the chalkboard in their living room.

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A UNSW Sydney mathematician has discovered a new method to tackle algebra's oldest challenge—solving higher polynomial equations. Polynomials are equations involving a variable raised to powers, such ...