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.

The letter x used in math problems has a fascinating history tracing back to arabic origins. Its adoption reflects a unique ...

Students aren’t necessarily missing the math, they’re missing how to make sense of the problem itself. Once we see ...

A bill awaiting President Donald Trump's signature aims to make IRS error notices clearer and easier to understand. The IRS Math and Taxpayer Help Act would require the agency to spell out exactly ...

More than one‐third of the world's population uses a writing system that includes both uppercase and lowercase letter forms.

This same principle applies to education: If students never meet resistance from mistakes, they fail to develop the resilience necessary to achieve great growth. Mistakes are the “wind” that helps ...

DPI says the proposed new math standards will help make the courses more meaningful for students in life after high school.

Cosmology is already a complicated field of study, so switching up the variables is extra rough.

The Calculator app on your iPhone (and iPad) is capable of a host of numeric maneuvers. Beyond performing basic and complex calculations, it can handle complicated scientific equations and convert ...

A research team led by the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) have developed a method to accurately and ...