Of five major content areas covered in math classes — numbers and operations, measurement, geometry, data and statistics, and algebra and functions — teachers are putting a bigger emphasis ...

Historically speaking, Algebra 1 has been reserved for ninth or tenth grade, and research indicates the majority of students ...

What if instead of defining a mesh as a series of vertices and edges in a 3D space, you could describe it as a single function? The easiest function would return the signed distance to the closest … ...

Scott Steketee, Daniel Scher, Connecting Functions in Geometry and Algebra, The Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 109, No. 6 (February 2016), pp. 448-455 ...

Modular forms are much more complicated and enigmatic functions, and students don’t typically encounter them until graduate school. But “there are probably fewer areas of math where they don’t have ...

C. E. Rickart, The Maximal Ideal Space of Functions Locally Approximable in a Function Algebra, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 17, No. 6 (Dec., 1966), pp. 1320-1326 ...

Math Geek Mom: Moving Up There is a function in math called the “Greatest Integer Function,” which assigns a value to every number that is the largest integer less than or equal to that number. For ...