May is almost here, bringing warmer weather and various holidays, such as Mother's Day, Memorial Day and Cinco de Mayo. While Cinco de Mayo is the most popular reason to celebrate May 5, this year, ...

Square Root Day — an event that occurs only nine times in a century — was celebrated with a variety of math activities this week at the St. Augustine Elementary School gym. Square Root Day is an ...

Mastering quick square root calculations boosts maths exam performance. Speed and accuracy provide a significant advantage in algebra and geometry. Memorising key square roots and using mental math ...

In the 36 years since its creation, Pi Day has become a widely celebrated holiday, one that is not just for math nerds or those with a sweet tooth. The holiday always falls on March 14, but retired ...

Thinking about various sci-fi concepts for FTL travel and such, I decided to write a program on my calculator to calculate time dilation. For those of you who don't know what that means; the faster ...

Math advocate and educational computer game creator Matthew Peterson doesn’t want to just teach kids the importance of math – he wants kids to gain a love for math concepts by attending the “Math Fair ...

You may not be aware of it, but tomorrow's a national holiday for the pocket-protector-and-slide-rule crowd. But why settle for just one numerically inspired celebration each year? Cringely goes in ...

Years ago, no math education was complete without understanding how to compute a square root. Today, you are probably just reaching for a calculator, or if you are writing a program, you’ll probably ...

Years ago, no math education was complete without understanding how to compute a square root. Today, you are probably just reaching for a calculator, or if you are writing a program, you’ll probably ...

A new DNA computer calculates square roots of perfect squares up to 900. Like quantum computers, DNA computers are an exciting frontier of post-silicon computing. Where previous examples were up to 4 ...