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WESTON — The "Survivor Math Challenge" on Sept. 26 was an outdoor event in which teams of students competed with one another to solve order-of-operations math problems before completing a variety of ...

You don’t have to be a math whiz to know that 4 - 2 + 1 equals 3. Yet I was working with several students recently who said it equals 1. And it wasn’t their fault. Nor was it their teacher’s fault.

Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally. Most of us learned that mnemonic device at some point in our mathematical education. Calculations must be done in an appropriate succession to reflect distributive ...

Hundreds of sixth graders are enrolled in an Algebra I class, a high school course Fairfax County Public Schools is expanding access to through a pilot program this year.

The confusion (likely intentional) boiled down to a discrepancy between the math rules used in grade school and in high school. By Steven Strogatz Recently I wrote about a math equation that had ...