America at 250: The New Issue of NR Is Out Audio By Carbonatix The Ontario Mathematics Coordinators Association (OMCA) has released an official statement responding to a National Review report which ...
A math education professor in New York City claimed that the equation 2+2=4 “reeks of white supremacist patriarchy.” “The idea that math (or data) is culturally neutral or in any way objective is a ...
2 + 2 = ? appears to be one of the easiest problems in mathematics, and it is probably one of the first you ever encountered. If Kate has 2 apples and Matt gives her 2 more apples, then she has 4 ...
An Iowa woman jokingly calls it "Satan's handiwork.'' A California mom says she's broken down in tears. A Pennsylvania parent says it "makes my blood boil.'' What could be so horrible? Grade-school ...
The answer could be 1 or it could be 16, or it could be both. There are two problems, according to the computer science professor: the order and the obelus. An obelus is this: ÷ and it has a variety ...
In “California Leftists Try to Cancel Math Class” (op-ed, May 19), Williamson M. Evers correctly quotes some of the antiracist dogmas being promoted that will frustrate math learning. However, many of ...
Sometimes BODMAS is just PEMDAS by another name. And no, the answer is not 100. By Steven Strogatz Mathematical Twitter is normally a quiet, well-ordered place, a refuge from the aggravations of the ...