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).
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 millilitres are in 2.4 litres of water (it’s 2,400). But the same can’t ...
For over a decade, mathematicians have failed to agree whether a 500-page proof is actually correct. Now, translating the ...
Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...
Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His ...