Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s always fun to test our knowledge with questions from our school days. Sure, we’ve grown up and learned a lot since then, but ...

Early math is fraught with confusing questions: Do kids really need to know all those multiplication tables? Which should come first, math concepts or procedures? Why don’t schools pay as much ...

Every mathematician has a story that goes something like this. You’re at a party, and someone asks what you do for a living. “I’m a mathematician,” you say. “You must be a genius!” they reply. Or ...