It’s an eternal question for generations of math students: How am I going to use this in the real world? At Bates, Meredith Greer answers that question with an entire course, “Mathematics Across the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American On Monday, the Onion reported that the ...

You’re standing at the edge of a cliff, phone in hand, trying to measure the distance to the opposite side – no tape measure, no drone, just your brain. Now what? Trigonometry just became your ...

Building a giant steel bale feeder is hard. Try it. Problem No. 1: Unless you live in ranch country, you probably don't even know what it's supposed to look like — regardless of whether you can build ...

There was a time that I thought that understanding math was more useful than memorizing it. A certain amount of memorization is essential, especially for lower-level math. For example, you need to ...