The Monthly publishes articles, as well as notes and other features, about mathematics and the profession. Its readers span a broad spectrum of mathematical interests, and include professional ...

A graphic artist is testing everyone’s knowledge of the mathematical order of operations with a string of numbers and missing arithmetic symbols. Gergely Dudás, of Budapest, Hungary, shared the new ...

It is a common trend in the sports world for any and all personalities therein to adopt various buzz words and jargon. Words or phrases that are either rooted in obscurity or just tossed out to ...

Social media users have been left in a tizzy over a seemingly perplexing math equation, causing a rift as folks argue over the right answer and how to perform the order of operations. The question was ...

Equations in parentheses must be solved first, following exponents, multiplication, division, addition, and then subtraction. Since there are no parentheses or exponents in this equation, ...

Korean children's ability to solve addition problems with sums of 10, single-digit addition problems with sums between 10 and 18, and single-digit subtraction problems with minuends between 10 and 18 ...

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 ...