In a boon to algebra students everywhere, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University has devised a simpler and more efficient way to solve problems involving the quadratic equation. The new method was ...

Algebra can be tough to figure out, and textbook answer keys often don't display the step-by-step solutions so crucial to learning. Mathpapa is a website that walks you through each step of an ...

Looking for the answers to ax² + bx + c = 0? A mathematician has rediscovered a technique that the ancient Babylonians used. By Kenneth Chang and Jonathan Corum The quadratic equation has frustrated ...

New research details an intriguing new way to solve "unsolvable" algebra problems that go beyond the fourth degree – something that has generally been deemed impossible using traditional methods for ...

What’s a Building Thinking Classroom? At Wyoming High School it’s math on your feet, in a group of three, with a whiteboard ...

News of a subtle quadratic equation breakthrough has brought algebra forward from the very back of many people’s minds, and algebra is always part of the “when will I ever use this?” rubric people use ...

Everyone learns (and some readers maybe still remember) the quadratic formula. It’s a pillar of algebra and allows you to solve equations like Ax 2 +Bx+C=0. But just because you’ve used it doesn’t ...

THE appearance of this book marks another stage in the improvement which is at last being effected in English treatises on elementary algebra. How different it is from the old-fashioned text-book will ...