You pay for a latte with money from your Starbucks app, so your bank account balance doesn’t change. That means the coffee was basically free, right? This is just one example of “girl math,” a trend ...

Math in economics — as well as its smaller cousin finance — is seductive for a number of reasons. One is simply our human brain. Illusory pattern perception is a well-documented occurrence whereby our ...

"Conservatives like iceberg lettuce, whereas liberals like arugula." It's a mathematical equation. Matt Gattis, co-founder of Hunch.com—a Web site that helps users make decisions based on personality ...

Managing your financial life involves some basic math skills. Nothing terribly complicated, and it's stuff you probably learned by sixth grade. Here is a quick sample of a few items on the survey from ...

Rutgers Cooperative Extension and the New Jersey Coalition for Financial Education recently completed a series of financial education teacher training classes called "Hard Core Boot Camp." One of the ...

Have you been to “math camp”? That is how a major technology company described their quarterly business meeting at an Association for Financial Professionals event prior to creating a consistent ...

Did you take a personal finance course in high school? How about college? Depending on when you attended classes, you might have learned now-outdated information such as “how to balance a checkbook” ...