PEMDAS has plagued many in elementary school math classes, but how many Americans remember how to use the acronym to solve problems? A simple sixth-grade math equation went viral on X for stumping ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

A dad has been left scratching his head over a children's homework question so challenging even maths graduates have been struggling to solve it. Desperate for answers, he has taken to social media to ...

The deceptively simple equation that would typically be given to a fifth grader has gone viral after it was shared by user @BholanathDutta on X (formerly Twitter). He posted a photo of the equation ...

Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...