HYPATIA:Looking for me? Welcome to the desert of factors, multiples and primes. One of my favourite parts of my mathematical maze. If you are going to find your way out, you are going to have to work ...

Across the country, educators continue to wrestle with big questions about math curricula. Two years ago, the California education board’s adoption of a long-gestating new math framework added more ...

A multiple is a number that can be divided by a smaller number, or itself, an exact number of times, without a remainder. Another way to think of it is that multiples of a number belong to that number ...

Baltimore — Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying ...