Group work and giving students time to discuss their work helps to build their confidence in using math in science lessons, a ...

New research has, for the first time, tracked ice shelf, sea ice and ocean swell wave conditions over multiple years in the lead-up to three large-scale iceberg "calving" events in Antarctica, ...

The secret beauty in apples, stars and the center of you. In the world of taxicab geometry, even the Pythagorean theorem takes a back seat. Trying to fit it all in? There’s a trick to it, even in 24 ...

Using machine learning and math, a Brigham Young University student improved a key tool firefighters rely on during wildfire ...

Mathematicians soon hypothesized that as your set gets bigger, the biggest sum-free subsets will get much larger than N /3.

Teachers can get kids comfortable with math concepts by using numeracy-focused vocabulary in everyday classroom activities.

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Their work revives long-standing mathematical curiosities but does so through a fresh window – additive combinatorics.

The most famous packing problem concerns spheres. In 1611, the astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed that the densest way to ...

It "represents theoretical math that could’ve been done decades ago" - but it has big implications for the future.

For centuries, prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that help identify them and the way they’re distributed among other numbers ...

A man steals $100 from a shop—but how much does the shop owner actually lose? This viral riddle has stumped the internet with its tricky math. A man steals $100 from a shop.