"Regular" high school seniors in Australia faced an astonishing statistics problem in their exams. Math is having a high profile year, from common core to Australia's high school exit exams. The math ...

Is Oglethorpe University's Bill Shillito right? What does this math problem mean? You love numbers. So do we. Let's nerd out over numbers together. The shared problem follows a now-common formula with ...

A math handout sent home by teachers at my son's school struck me as so absurd that I thought for sure the parents were getting punked. The exercise demonstrated how to do the new way of long division ...

It’s not easy to make confusing mathematics topics understandable, let alone interesting, to non-mathematicians, but University of Pennsylvania professor Robert Ghrist has figured out the formula.

This student isn't exactly wrong, but this definitely isn't the answer the teacher was expecting. Redditor HouseHoldSheep was grading some math tests recently when he came across a smart ass answer to ...

With school starting this week, it got me thinking. Do you remember “New Math”? If you are my age or older, you probably do. In the late ’60s and early ’70s, “New Math” was introduced in our nation’s ...