Earlier this year, [Dan Maloney] went inside mechanical calculators. Being the practical sort, [Dan] jumped right into the Pascaline invented by Blaise Pascal. It couldn’t multiply or divide. He then ...

Maple Calculator, a free mobile app that makes it easy to enter, solve, and visualize mathematical problems from algebra, precalculus, calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations, now offers ...

Quick - what's the square root of 2? What do you mean you don't have a calculator? Well, you can start guessing, right? So let's work this through. You know you have an upper bound - it has to be less ...

There are some men who want to watch the the world burn and others who want to offer it easily customizable embedded calculators. Mateusz Mucha belongs to the latter camp. Mucha is a sociologist by ...

Your June 28 editorial on math education (“The ‘Why’ of Math”) certainly hit one nail on the head: This country is in serious need of math teachers with solid math training. It’s not enough to have ...

Tianhui Michael Li and Allison Bishop are right in pointing out that students graduating today need better statistics training than they did a generation ago (“Calculus Is So Last Century,” op-ed, ...

They don't call Scott Flansburg "The Human Calculator" for nothing. A group of Greenwich Academy middle school students watched in awe Thursday as they called out two- and three-digit numbers and ...