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

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

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Weird Math sets out to “reveal the strange connections between math and everyday life.” The book fulfills that laudable goal, in part. At times, teenage math prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and his tutor, ...

MARCUS DU SAUTOY:'At the heart of the mathematical world lie numbers 'They give us the power to describe, 'measure and count everything in the universe. MARCUS DU SAUTOY:'But numbers aren't always ...

The transcendental number π is as familiar as it is ubiquitous, but how does Euler’s number e transcend the ordinary? 4 pieces: 2.5 × 2.5 × 2.5 × 2.5 = 39.06 5 pieces: 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 = 32 6 pieces: ...

Language can influence how quickly kids learn to count – but does it make a difference in the long run? Is 2/3 bigger than 3/5? How quickly and confidently you can answer this question may depend on ...

Mathematics is one of the only areas of knowledge that can objectively be described as "true," because its theorems are derived from pure logic. And yet, at the same time, those theorems are often ...