The purpose of this study was to investigate 6th-grade students' use of equations to describe and represent problem situations prior to formal instruction in algebra. Ten students were presented with ...

Simultaneous equations are two linear equations that can be solved using bar models. By remembering that the same letter will always have the same value we can work out the missing values. To solve ...

A viral math equation with two solutions confused Facebook users. A seemingly simple math problem went viral on YouTube because of two different versions of the order ...

Developing algorithms for solving high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) has been an exceedingly difficult task for a long time, due to the notoriously difficult problem known as the ...

Math teachers have stymied students for hundreds of years by sticking goats in strangely shaped fields. Learn why one grazing goat problem has stumped mathematicians for more than a century. If you’ve ...

An algebraic equation contains one or more letters in it. Each letter in the equation is called a variable. A variable can change in value. We guess at different values for each letter until our ...

Sometimes, it’s easy for a computer to predict the future. Simple phenomena, such as how sap flows down a tree trunk, are straightforward and can be captured in a few lines of code using what ...