This summer, battle lines were drawn over a simple math problem: 8 ÷ 2(2 + 2) = ? If you divide 8 by 2 first, you get 16, but if you multiply 2 by (2 + 2) first, you get 1. So, which answer is right?

Knowing your multiplication facts is very useful, but what happens when the numbers you are multiplying are greater than those in your multiplication tables? You will need to calculate using a column ...

In 1971, German mathematicians Schönhage and Strassen predicted a faster algorithm for multiplying large numbers, but it remained unproven for decades. Mathematicians from Australia and France have ...

A decimal number is any number made up of the digits 0 to 9. This can include whole numbers and numbers less than 1. You can use a decimal point to show which digits are whole numbers and which are ...