The doors to MIT are always unlocked. If you slip in at night and take a long walk down the fluorescent hallway called the Infinite Corridor, you will pass flatscreen monitors displaying friendly ...

It began early this week when a Twitter user named Em tweeted the equation 8 ÷ 2(2 + 2) = ?. Many calculated the problem and came up with an answer of 16. But others did the math just as confidently ...

A basic algebra equation has left people divided over the correct process for solving it, with two methods resulting in two completely different answers. The debate around the problem hinges on the ...

Say it with us: Kids today have it sooooo easy. A new smartphone app will do their math homework for them, provided it’s not too complicated. PhotoMath by microblink uses a phone’s camera to solve ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Let’s face it: Math can be a polarizing ...

This post originally appered in Business Insider. Mathematics is all around us, and it has shaped our understanding of the world in countless ways. 1) The Pythagorean theorem: This theorem is ...