While this three-step process is the ideal process of applied math, reality is more complicated. Once I reach the second step where I want the solution of the math problem, very often, if not most of ...

Some viral math puzzles come from unexpected sources, like elementary school classrooms. This problem was intended for more advanced students, and it's been stumping people for at least 145 years. The ...

In September 2019, news broke regarding progress on this 82-year-old question, thanks to prolific mathematician Terence Tao. And while the story of Tao’s breakthrough is promising, the problem isn’t ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

Assignment problems lie at the heart of combinatorial optimisation, seeking the most efficient mapping of a set of agents to a set of tasks under cost or profit criteria. The classical linear ...