In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

A teacher has gone viral after sharing how one of her students cleverly tricked her to use a new viral slang expression, under the guise of checking the answer to a math question. Threads user Jenn ...

Math doesn’t have to be daunting, especially when your iPhone (or iPad) can do the heavy lifting. Tucked away inside iOS is a full-featured scientific calculator, ready to help you solve complex ...

Each week, Cookie Jam gives us a mix of easy and tricky Buzzwords. “Math that introduces letters as variables” is definitely one of the tougher ones, so here’s a little help. Algebra is a branch of ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it ...

Sorry, it’s math time. But these are some of the easiest math quizzes we’ve ever put on BuzzFeed. They have 54 questions between them that you should find easy to ...

A defining memory from my senior year of high school was a nine-hour math exam with just six questions. Six of the top scorers won slots on the U.S. team for the International Math Olympiad (IMO), the ...

So how to best describe Americans’ relationship with math? The answer is, well, a lot like multivariable calculus: It’s complicated. A national Gallup study reveals that more than 90% of American ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. While artificial intelligence has made remarkable gains in mathematics, its well-chronicled shortcomings in ...

When Redditor u/Awecalibur reviewed his niece’s math homework, he wasn’t expecting to spark a family debate, let alone an internet one. But the fifth-grade math problem in question was anything but ...