Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

Randomly scramble the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 to form a seven-digit number (or a six-digit number if the leading digit is 0). Rank the following events in order ...

More than a year after Hurricane Helene tore through the North Carolina mountains, small rural counties are still footing the bill while waiting for federal disaster funds to arrive. In Avery County, ...

What is the most important number in the entirety of mathematics? Ok, that’s a pretty silly question – out of infinite possibilities, how could you possibly choose? I suppose a big hitter like 2 or 10 ...

If you’ve ever wondered, even briefly, whether you have obesity, you might want to double-check right about now. New research suggests that over two-thirds of Americans are considered obese under ...

The name of this fall’s most obnoxious classmate: Six Seven. Math teacher Cara Bearden braces herself for any equation that yields the two numbers, knowing her students will immediately scream them ...

The meme exploded into youth culture with a video of a boy who delivers a giddy “six seven” at a basketball game. CAM WILDER The name of this fall’s most obnoxious classmate: Six Seven. Math teacher ...

Answer: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000. This is the kind of math riddle you can work out with times tables, or by simple logic. First, get as close to 1,000 as you can (888). From there, it’s easy to ...

Mumbai: India, said Fields medallist Manjul Bhargava, must fall in love with mathematics again. Not as a "drudgery of formulas" but as an act of "exploration."Bhargava, Canadian by nationality but of ...

About 1 in 5 people considered overweight based on BMI alone would be classified as having obesity based on the European Association for the Study of Obesity’s (EASO’s) new framework aimed at defining ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...