WESTON — The "Survivor Math Challenge" on Sept. 26 was an outdoor event in which teams of students competed with one another to solve order-of-operations math problems before completing a variety of ...

Ever wondered why your Excel formulas sometimes produce unexpected results? It might be due to the order in which Excel performs calculations. This order is defined by the acronym PEMDAS. If you're ...

The confusion (likely intentional) boiled down to a discrepancy between the math rules used in grade school and in high school. By Steven Strogatz Recently I wrote about a math equation that had ...

Watch the video to learn about adding and subtracting with negative numbers on a number line and by using number discs. Adding and subtracting with negative numbers. Let's talk about two ways to help ...

Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally. Most of us learned that mnemonic device at some point in our mathematical education. Calculations must be done in an appropriate succession to reflect distributive ...

The order of operations is a collection of rules that gives the correct sequence of steps for doing a calculation. Watch the video to hear Berry discuss how remembering the correct order of operations ...

The Number and Operations course for elementary and middle school teachers examines the three main categories in the Number and Operations strand of Principles and Standards of School Mathematics ...