This holiday-themed brainteaser looks simple, but it's quietly tripping up adults everywhere. A math teacher walks us through ...
Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.
We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...
What does math and musical performance have in common? That's what Ami Radunskaya, a guest lecturer from Pomona College, answered for roughly 70 people during "A Celebration of Mathematics and Music" ...
Cheng was the guest speaker at the second-annual Celebration of Math and Music, an event hosted by the partnership between the Jacobs School of Music and the math department in the College of Arts and ...
For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...
You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...
Zachary Champagne’s 3rd and 4th graders figure out early on that this math class will be different when their teacher tells them: “I don’t care about the answer.” The goal is to shift his elementary ...