While it is considered unacceptable for the average person to lack basic reading and writing skills, people often brag about their inability to “do math.” It is almost a badge of honor to be ...

They don't call Scott Flansburg "The Human Calculator" for nothing. A group of Greenwich Academy middle school students watched in awe Thursday as they called out two- and three-digit numbers and ...

Most people will probably remember the times tables from primary school quizzes. There might be patterns in some of them (the simple doubling of the 2 times table) but others you just learnt by rote.

Julius Caesar is said to have encrypted battle plans in an alphabetical code, protecting the life-or-death messages from spies. That wouldn’t work today. Middle school students can easily crack the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As Edward Frenkel sees it, the way we teach math in schools today is about as ...

Recently, I co-authored and published a math paper that solved a 15-year-old mystery. But, unlike a book or a gadget, the work cannot be copyrighted or bought and sold. In fact, my co-author and I ...