Researchers used algebra and geometry together to solve an old random walk problem. Random walk ideas have informed everything from biology to video games. This team identified a key geometry idea ...

A red circle is inscribed inside a blue square. The arrangement leaves gaps in the square’s four corners, two of which are filled with smaller circles that just barely touch the big red circle and the ...

How about making math learning fun and engaging using video content? Well, this post provides you with a carefully curated collection of some popular YouTube math channels to use in your instruction.

Abstract: In constructing public-key cryptosystems, commutative property is an essential characteristic. Taking advantage of the commutative property of Chebyshev polynomials, a publickey cryptosystem ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223, United States Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, ...

In math, Algebra 1 is a make-or-break course. The class is the gateway to high school math, and struggling to complete it can close off those higher-level pathways—and even jeopardize students’ ...

If you're old enough, you probably remember getting a line from your math teacher that you need to learn the steps to an equation because "you won't always be carrying a calculator with you." In an AP ...