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 ...

https://doi.org/10.5951/mathteacmiddscho.22.3.0152 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5951/mathteacmiddscho.22.3.0152 Copy URL Common Core State Standards Initiative ...

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.

Watch the video to learn about adding and subtracting with negative numbers on a number line and by using number discs. Adding and subtracting with negative numbers. Let's talk about two ways to help ...

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 ...

At first glance, the problem appears easy enough. But while many users on X, formerly Twitter, quickly chimed in with answers, only a small number got it right - because only they remembered to apply ...

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 ...