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May is almost here, bringing warmer weather and various holidays, such as Mother's Day, Memorial Day and Cinco de Mayo. While Cinco de Mayo is the most popular reason to celebrate May 5, this year, ...

How does Vedic Math work? Vedic mathematics holds several important aspects that make it valuable in the field of mathematics education. Vedic mathematics simplifies complex calculations by ...

Studies suggest early math skills are a better predictor of academic success than early reading skills. However, in a typical five-hour preschool day, only 58 seconds are spent on math learning.

If you’ve ever taken an algebra or physics class, then you’ve met a parabola, the simple curve that can model how a ball flies through the air. The most important part of a parabola is the vertex — ...

DNA testing has made tracing family trees into a common past-time for our globalized world, but according to one mathematician, we might be overthinking it. Joseph Chang, a statistician at Yale ...

On a recent train trip from Lyon to Paris, Vladimir Voevodsky sat next to Steve Awodey and tried to convince him to change the way he does mathematics. Voevodsky, 48, is a permanent faculty member at ...

Over the past year, since I took over the common-core math beat, I’ve been thinking a lot about fractions. As I wrote in November, the Common Core State Standards for mathematics emphasize fractions ...

In the late 1800s, when James Clerk Maxwell realised that light was an electromagnetic wave, his equations showed that light’s speed should be about 300,000 kilometres per second. This was close to ...