The journal Science's "breakthrough of the year" for 2006 is the solution of a century-old math problem. The story behind the solution is quite a soap opera. It includes a Harvard math wizard, a ...

The Fort Jackson Commissary became a de facto mathematics lab for C.C. Pinckney Elementary School during its annual Math ...

Richard Rusczyk, founder of Art of Problem Solving, has a vision for bringing “joyous, beautiful math” — and problem-solving — to classrooms everywhere. When Richard Rusczyk became interested in math ...

The term "computer" used to be applied to humans that performed calculations by hand. It's still important for today's kids to still know how to, say, multiply without using their calculators (or ...

A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

These student-constructed problems foster collaboration, communication, and a sense of ownership over learning.

Everyone agreed on the first step: Solve inside the parentheses, for 2+2=4. But after that, people split down two paths. Some multiplied first, while others divided, leading to different answers—1 and ...

Starting with the problem number ten on our list of math problem-solving activities for middle school – one night a hungry King couldn’t sleep. He went down to the kitchen, where he found a crate full ...

Looking for some math problem-solving activities for middle school? Good, you’re at the right page then. Right before children enter Middle School (around the age of 11 or 12), they enter a critical ...