Math is one of the hardest subjects in school, which is why owning a graphing calculator seems like a necessity for students. But what if you could use your smartphone to solve equations by pointing ...

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 ...

How to solve simultaneous equations using graphs. How much is each ticket? Draw a bar to represent one adult and two children’s tickets. Let’s call the adult ticket 𝑦 and the child ticket 𝑥. Another ...

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 ...

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 ...

The use of concrete models for teaching students how to solve equations is often debated in scientific literature. This article aims to examine the balance model and to identify the issues that divide ...

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 ...