During years of focusing on how many 8th graders take Algebra I, Californians have often overlooked a measure of student performance that is crucial to students’ long-term success in math and ...

LITTLE ROCK — For ancient people mathematics was central to life. Today, ponders Ivor Grattan-Guinness, “mathematicians are often treated as mysterious outcasts removed from polite intellectual life.” ...

Looking for the answers to ax² + bx + c = 0? A mathematician has rediscovered a technique that the ancient Babylonians used. By Kenneth Chang and Jonathan Corum The quadratic equation has frustrated ...

Algebra is all about missing values or numbers. If you have solved a missing box problem, you have already solved an algebra equation. Rather than drawing missing boxes or writing the words “missing ...