Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Algebra often involves manipulating numbers or other objects using operations like addition and multiplication. Flavio ...

If you are like most adults in this country, it's likely that you don't have particularly fond associations with algebra. Algebra is often considered an academic "gateway," which really means "most ...

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why the national reaction was so strong to Andrew Hacker’s op-ed in last Sunday’s NY Times, “Is Algebra Necessary? ” After engaging with various blog posts and ...

Algebra is all about missing values or numbers. If you have solved a missing box problem, you have already solved an algebra equation. Rather than drawing missing boxes or writing the words “missing ...

I got an A in algebra II, I think. That was long ago. I do know that I have long since forgotten whatever I learned in that course and have never used it since. Later, he explains what mathematics is ...

You scrambled up a Rubik’s cube, and now you want to put it back in order. What sequence of moves should you make? Surprise: You can answer this question with modern algebra. You might remember ...