A 150-year-old geometry rule has been overturned after mathematicians found two different torus surfaces with identical ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

Earlier, we told you about the 10 smartest kids in the world. They are ranked by a site called Brilliant.org, which asks users progressively harder math and science problems. Think you might be as ...

There are all sorts of apps available in the market these days, and some of them are immensely useful. Like the apps we’ll talk about in these articles. These apps allow you to solve math problems by ...

New research from Vanderbilt University has found students benefit more from being taught the concepts behind math problems rather than the exact procedures to solve the problems. The findings offer ...

Construct a convex octagon with four right angles. It probably says a lot about me as a teacher that I assign problems like this. I watch as students try to arrange the right angles consecutively.

Debates over how geometry is understood and learned date back at least to the days of Plato, with more recent scholars ...