Grade school math students are likely familiar with teachers admonishing them not to just guess the answer to a problem. But a new proof establishes that, in fact, the right kind of guessing is ...

But he systematically set out word-­form linear and quadratic equations, with algorithmic methods for solving them — that is, for finding the "unknown numbers," our modern x's and y's.

Simple phenomena, such as how sap flows down a tree trunk, are straightforward and can be captured in a few lines of code using what mathematicians call linear differential equations ... convert a ...

Thus, by going through this chapter, you may easily revise all formulas and properties related to the system of linear equations and become efficient to solve the problems based on a pair of ...

She’s right—using simultaneous equations does get really complicated, and if you’d like to send me your work for the solution, I’d love to see it. But the system is also kind of a trick.

If, while watching the Super Bowl, you had wanted to estimate how far a pass thrown by Patrick Mahomes traveled through the air, you would have been solving a quadratic equation. The equations ...

CCM politician Shamsi Nahodha recently questioned why we teach quadratic equations in primary or secondary school as part of a larger statement on how he thinks we should fix our education system.

We need to solve a quadratic equation so we must set it equal ... for \(y\), substitute the 2 values for \(x\) into the original linear equation.