There was an interesting article in this weekend’s New York Times about the SAS Institute, a software company in North Carolina. The company was started in 1976 by four former professors who worked in the agricultural statistics department at North...

We were discussing factoring in my Intermediate Algebra class the other day and happened upon the polynomial x4-81. So, we factored the original expression into (x²+9)(x²-9) and then to (x²+9)(x+3)(x-3). One student asked why we split up the...

I was giving a test in my Beginning Algebra classes this past week, and while I was proctoring, I began to page through John Coburn’s Algebra and Trigonometry textbook.  I came across an interesting picture indicating a formula to find the area under...

Yesterday’s New York Times had a story regarding the results of the 2009 Mathematics portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress.  The results indicated that, at the fourth and eighth grade levels, American math skills have plateaued,...

I read a review of the graphic novel Logicomix in the New York Times recently. Logicomix is a graphic novel that dramatizes the work and lives of some of the most important mathematical logicians of the late 19th and early 20th century. A review in...