Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured ...

Halafian culture arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, displaying one of the earliest ...

Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

Weird Math sets out to “reveal the strange connections between math and everyday life.” The book fulfills that laudable goal, in part. At times, teenage math prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and his tutor, ...

Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help their children with math homework? Those days predated the Common Core ...

Explore the roots of math anxiety in students and discover strategies to foster confidence and understanding in mathematics.

Math conferences don’t usually feature standing ovations, but Francis Su received one last month in Atlanta. Su, a mathematician at Harvey Mudd College in California and the outgoing president of the ...

Mathematics majors study the relationships between numbers, structures and patterns. Their classes range from algebra to statistics, and the concepts build on one another. Students learn skills like ...