This same principle applies to education: If students never meet resistance from mistakes, they fail to develop the ...

Through a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Jenny Quan is exploring the mathematical principles behind Rubik's cubes.

Examining mistakes gives students a chance to discuss misconceptions openly and find new approaches to solving problems.

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

A maths whizz has shared a 'genius' way to solve multiplication sums that has left parents and kids baffled - but it's ...

A maths whizz has shared a 'genius' way to solve almost any multiplication sum - and it's so simple even young children can ...

A problem in a child's workbook has gone viral after the bewildered parents shared it to Reddit and asked the internet for ...

A society that graduates students who cannot read proficiently or solve fundamental math problems is declining. Employers already speak of a skills ... instead of burying them with tasks unrelated to ...

Harvard mathematics professor Lauren K. Williams just won a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." She's still focused on ...

Local-only hiring is a losing game. Here's why global talent is the only real solution to the demographic and workplace ...

Bursaries to cover fees and expenses for the UK's first private specialist maths school are on offer to talented pupils - take the test to see if you'd get in ...

Quenching, a powerful heat transfer mechanism, is remarkably effective at transporting heat away. But in extreme environments ...