MadMath

Here's another one of these stupid memory devices that I guess some pre-algebra instructors use to get their students to hobble through ...

Are parentheses multiplication? My remedial algebra students will pretty universally answer "yes" to this question; I guess they m...

170 years ago today, Sir William Rowan Hamilton had the flash of insight on how to extend two-dimensional complex numbers to cover 3- and 4-...

Armagh Observatory Astropark, Northern Ireland, UK.

So granted that the last blog post here was thinking about all the reasons why remedial college math classes in algebra are so tough (for st...

Today is the start of my fall semester at CUNY, and my schedule is almost entirely teaching remedial algebra courses. (You know, the toughes...

Here's a clear-eyed and concise article from the New York Times back in 2011, "CUNY Adjusts Amid Tide of Remedial Students", ...