Hunt for shapes and make familiar objects by putting together several different shapes. Warm up with a Mystery Math Mistake to tell whether Dotson's 10-frames represent a number more than his ...

If you’re a child of the ’80s or ’90s, chances are you’ve spent hours tracing out intricate patterns using the pens and gears of a Spirograph kit. Simple as those parts may … ...

Until recently, gerrymandered districts tended to stick out, identifiable by their contorted tendrils. This is no longer the case. “With modern technology, you can gerrymander pretty effectively ...

A Big Year in Graph Theory. If there is one area of math that was particularly fruitful in 2023, it’s graph theory. One of the biggest mathematical discoveries of the past year was the proof of a new, ...

Use the gray gridlines to graph your parabola, or draw your own horizontal and vertical lines inside the square. The line tool is located on the "Insert Shapes" panel in the far left of the ...

Scientists have trained a computer algorithm to complete a nearly century-old math problem in a mere half hour. Keller’s conjecture, a tessellation problem about the way certain shapes tile in ...

In math terminology, “graph” is a fancy word for a network, the kind of diagram that depicts, for instance, a web of friends on Facebook or the spread of a disease.