Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Math Genius: Multiplication Math Genius: Multiplication is a fun and educational game that challenges players with randomly generated multiplication ...

A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for TheAtlantic.com ...

You probably haven’t had to do longhand math in years, but you do mental math every day. Or maybe you google math problems ten times a day, because you’ve forgotten how to do any math beyond your ...

Here are five math problems given to students at BEAM, a program for students with high math aptitude from New York City public schools with low-income populations. The questions require no knowledge ...

Matrix multiplication is at the heart of many machine learning breakthroughs, and it just got faster—twice. Last week, DeepMind announced it discovered a more efficient way to perform matrix ...

Do you stare at a math word problem and feel completely stuck? You're not alone. These problems mix reading comprehension with complex math concepts, making them a common hurdle for students. The good ...

Once Sanaa Hiremath, 11, was home schooled, she found she could do math without writing problems down. She has a Guinness World Record, finishing a 12-digit multiplication problem in under 10 minutes.

People often solve simple arithmetic problems, such as basic addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, in their minds. The precise mental processes they rely on to solve these problems, ...