Algebra I should be a gateway—not gatekeeper—to students’ future academic success, in college and beyond. So says the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is issuing a challenge to developers and ...

A UNSW Sydney mathematician has discovered a new method to tackle algebra’s oldest challenge – solving higher polynomial equations. Polynomials are equations involving a variable raised to powers, ...

A mathematician has uncovered a way of answering some of algebra's oldest problems. University of New South Wales Honorary Professor Norman Wildberger, has revealed a potentially game-changing ...

Students have been required for decades to learn to solve for the variable x, and to find the slope of a line. Most complete the course in their first year of high school. But top-achievers are ...

If Ms. Smith’s 8th grade algebra class works through 10 word problems in an hour, and Ms. Jones’ class works through 10 equation problems during the same time, which class is likely to learn more math ...

Jumping from high school to college-level statistics and geometry can feel like learning a new language. The concepts get more abstract, the formulas become more complex, and the homework piles up ...

The calculations behind filling supermarket shelves are dizzyingly complex – but it all starts with the x and y you know from school Nando’s put it succinctly on its Twitter feed last month: “The UK ...

Basic algebraic problems involve one or two steps. More difficult ones involve forming equations and solving them before using the answer in some way. Most algebraic problems will involve forming an ...