You're sitting in math class trying to survive your latest pop quiz. Sweat trickles down your forehead as you read the prompt: "Find the distance between these points." The distance formula you're ...

When you hear the words "rational" and "irrational," they might bring to mind the relentlessly analytical Spock in "Star Trek." If you're a mathematician, however, you probably think of ratios between ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Hello brainiacs, I'm Ms Kirszman. Let's get mathematical. I love receiving really challenging tasks to ...

Mathematics students face challenges with rational and irrational numbers. Understanding the principles and patterns simplifies this concept. Rational numbers can be fractions of integers. Irrational ...

Using high school algebra and geometry, and knowing just one rational point on a circle or elliptic curve, we can locate infinitely many others. You’re sitting at the end of a long conference table, ...

The ability to map numbers onto a line is universal. But for an Amazonian tribe, this mapping is not linear but logarithmic. The finding illuminates both the nature and the limits of the human ...