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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...