Your child continues to use tape diagrams as a visual tool to solve word problems. Your child continues to use tape diagrams as a visual tool to solve word problems. Now, he solves for an unknown in ...

You use addition to find the total amount, when you have two or more numbers. You use the addition symbol (+) to add numbers together and then the equals symbol (=) to give you the answer. Let's add ...

The confusion (likely intentional) boiled down to a discrepancy between the math rules used in grade school and in high school. By Steven Strogatz Recently I wrote about a math equation that had ...

Time to test your brain! Are you a puzzle person? Most of these hard math problems aren’t straightforward arithmetic. They challenge you to look at problems a different way, testing your logic and ...

I don’t typically write responses to other opinion pieces, but there was one two weeks ago about new techniques in elementary math education that has inspired me. The main complaint was that there are ...

A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture. One morning last November, the ...

You use addition to find the total amount, when you have two or more numbers. You use the addition symbol (+) to add numbers together and then the equals symbol (=) to give you the answer. Let's add ...