Mathematical Twitter is normally a quiet, well-ordered place, a refuge from the aggravations of the internet. But on July 28, someone who must have been a troll off-duty decided to upset the ...

Recently I wrote about a math equation that had managed to stir up a debate online. The equation was this one: 8 ÷ 2(2+2) = ? The issue was that it generated two different answers, 16 or 1 ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off ...