Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

Amberlee Honsaker helps her daughter, Raegan, with math. Amberlee Honsaker remembers learning only one way to add or subtract in elementary school. It was the standard algorithm: stack numbers ...

A mathematical trick speeds up seismic calculations for earthquake simulations and could revolutionize earthquake preparedness.

Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number and double the other. After crossing out rows with ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

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Following President Donald Trump's announcement of reciprocal tariffs on dozens of America's trading partners, many questioned how the administration had calculated the rates at which to levy each ...

Some of the biggest challenges in teaching math aren’t about the numbers and operations themselves, but students’ attitudes toward them. Getting students to think deeply about problems, persevere ...