Underlying civilizations stunning advancements and the technological wonders of the modern age is something deep and mysteriously powerful: mathematics. But where does math come from and why does it ...

(This program is no longer available for online streaming.) Revisit "The Great Math Mystery," fresh from the archives and just nominated for an Emmy Award. Join NOVA on a mathematical mystery tour—a ...

Use Base-Ten diagrams and standard, expanded, and word forms to represent numbers. Warm up with a Mystery Math Mistake as you add two 2-digit numbers using a decomposition strategy. Find Which One ...

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In 1637, Pierre de Fermat scribbled a note on a textbook margin that would baffle mathematicians for more than three centuries. And that’s all he wrote. Fermat died before supplying the missing proof ...

In an entertaining and effective math primer, two children solve a haunted house's riddles using algebra. "The two sides of each equation are balanced. They're equal," Adler explains, before ...