From 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays, Catherine Thielmann, a NYS certified math teacher, will be available to provide help with math homework for students in grades two through nine. Call the library at ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical ...

Areas of pure math such as algebra, analysis, combinatorics and many others can be used—in some cases combined—to solve the complex math problems arising from applications of math to the real ...

A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes ...

The math underlying odds and gambling can help determine whether a wager is worth pursuing. The first thing to understand is that there are three distinct types of odds: fractional, decimal ...

especially when it comes to basic grade school math. According to a recently published paper from six Apple researchers, 'GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in ...

How do machine learning models do what they do? And are they really "thinking" or "reasoning" the way we understand those ...

To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems. But students who can recall these foundational facts in isolation often struggle to use ...

If you want to debate whether one investment yielding 4.5% is better than a less risky investment yielding 4.2%, you can usually count on an answer from Christine Benz, who writes a regular column ...

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Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...