News of a subtle quadratic equation breakthrough has brought algebra forward from the very back of many people’s minds, and algebra is always part of the “when will I ever use this?” rubric people use ...

While educators and policymakers debate whether 8th graders can be readied to learn algebra, Sigrid B. Frawley sits in front of her kindergartners with a magic bag. She puts three tokens in the bag ...

Jesse Schell is, perhaps, the top educational game designer in the business right now. A few months ago I asked him what his favorite educational game was. After a brief pause, he replied, “DragonBox ...

IF you were paying attention in algebra class, you should have no trouble solving this problem that is doing the rounds of the internet. See if you can whisk your mind back to algebra class ... if you ...

A few weeks ago, an equation appeared on Facebook showing a simple algebra problem with illustrations of horses, horseshoes, and cowboy boots in place of numbers. The first three lines demonstrate the ...

A differential central simple algebra, and in particular a differential matrix algebra, over a differential field K with constants C can be trivialized by a Picard-Vessiot (differential Galois) ...