Quantitative literacy, the ability to interpret numerical data in the context of everyday life, is increasingly important, says Bernard L. Madison, a professor of mathematics at the University of ...

You have most likely heard the term factor before. A factor is a number that goes into another. The factors of 10 for example are 1, 2, 5 and 10. Prime numbers are a special set of numbers that only ...

Key Takeaways ・A UC San Diego report reveals a significant spike in freshmen requiring remedial math classes, with the need ...

Scale factors describe how much a shape has been enlarged (made larger). Enlarging by a scale factor of 2 means that each side of the shape has been multiplied by 2. All the sides double in length and ...

The Poincaré conjecture has been in the news lately. Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman submitted a proof 3 years ago claiming that he had proved the famous conjecture. In August, he won a ...

The Journal of Experimental Education, Vol. 86, No. 4 (2018), pp. 610-632 (23 pages) In this research, the authors raised the issue that prior studies had failed to address the nested structure of ...

Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation, Vol. 39, No. 1 (2016), pp. 1-26 (26 pages) Abstract As the only province having achieved significantly above the Canadian average in ...