News of a subtle quadratic equation breakthrough has brought algebra forward from the very back of many people’s minds, and algebra is always part of the “when will I ever use this?” rubric people use ...

Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, measuring for a DIY project, or just having a math-related brain teaser thrown your ...

Millions of high school and college algebra students are united in a shared agony over solving for x and y. For those to whom the answers don't come easily, it gets worse: Most preschoolers and ...

While educators and policymakers debate whether 8th graders can be readied to learn algebra, Sigrid B. Frawley sits in front of her kindergartners with a magic bag. She puts three tokens in the bag ...

Gut instinct for numbers works in animals, too. March 16, 2014— -- Find algebra difficult? Well, think about this: Scientists find that even 5-year-old kids can do it. Now do you feel better? If ...

Learn the foundations of calculus using simple math concepts that are easy to understand, even if you’re new to the subject.

Algebra has been bugbear for several students since time immemorial. Especially by Class 12, algebra is almost like an inscrutable monster with tentacles going into every other topic in the syllabus, ...

BRAHAM, Minn. — It was fourth-period Basic Algebra 8 class on a gray October morning at Braham Area High School. Teacher Rick Riccio had assigned an exercise on converting large integers to scientific ...

American Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 120, No. 6 (Dec., 1998), pp. 1277-1287 (11 pages) A theorem of Cassidy states that any Zariski closed differential algebraic subgroup of a simple linear algebraic ...