For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

Helping students to develop math fluency takes more than just flash cards. It requires teaching them how to think about ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver ...

Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many millilitres are in 2.4 litres of water (it’s 2,400). But the same can’t ...

Years ago, no math education was complete without understanding how to compute a square root. Today, you are probably just ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

Professor Raúl Rojas has published a book about how symbols have been used throughout history in mathematics. The work was translated into English this year.

California’s public universities were once excellent at milling out mostly competent graduates (along with the requisite duds ...

Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.