EDITOR: I disagree that most students will not use algebra in their lives. Every shopper is looking for the answer to the actual price when a sale is advertised as 15 percent, 20 percent or any ...

High school math, and algebra, in particular, is in crisis. Although some students thrive on the pathway to calculus, most do not. Algebra I is the single most failed course in American high schools.

Of five major content areas covered in math classes — numbers and operations, measurement, geometry, data and statistics, and algebra and functions — teachers are putting a bigger emphasis ...

NIST has released the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF) and its printed companion, the NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions, the much-anticipated successors to the agency's most ...

The women behind "Moebius Noodles: Adventurous Math for the Playground Crowd" are back with another fun math game they call Function Machines. I introduced Maria Droujkova and Yelena McManaman last ...

Most engineering labs have digital oscilloscopes, but many engineers don’t fully explore their features. Among the more interesting features of a digital oscilloscope is its math channel, which can ...

Learning how to solve algebraic equations need not be all work and no play. Two software titles, “The Hidden Treasure of Al-Jabr” and “Standard Deviants: Algebra,” bring an entertaining element to the ...

What They Need To Know: In high school, students use a deeper understanding of mathematics to solve real-world problems. While in elementary and middle school, the math skills children need to know ...

How much math knowledge do you need for machine learning and deep learning? Some people say not much. Others say a lot. Both are correct, depending on what you want to achieve. There are plenty of ...