Weird Math sets out to “reveal the strange connections between math and everyday life.” The book fulfills that laudable goal, in part. At times, teenage math prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and his tutor, ...

March 14 is celebrated as Pi Day because the date, when written as 3/14, matches the start of the decimal expansion 3.14159… of the most famous mathematical constant. By itself, pi is simply a number, ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prime numbers are numbers that are not products of smaller whole numbers. Jeremiah Bartz A shard of smooth bone etched with ...

After outgrowing its original home, the National Museum of Mathematics has added new exhibits and an art gallery space in ...

The world belongs to the mathematicians and the physicists. We lay people may pump our minds with Discovery Channel specials, but they’re the ones who get to understand how it all really works–how the ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...

Thanks for joining me today. My name's Mrs. Gray, and I can't wait to do math with you, Today, we're gonna be doing a word problem with our friend Professor Barble. We're also going to be doing snap ...

Nearly 50 middle school students from across Dare County Schools came together March 11 for the district’s first-ever Numbers Game Math Competition, held at First Flight Middle School. The event ...