Algebra often involves manipulating numbers or other objects using operations like addition and multiplication. Flavio Coelho/Moment via Getty Images You scrambled up a Rubik’s cube, and now you want ...

The Mathematical Gazette is the original journal of the Mathematical Association and it is now over a century old. Its readership is a mixture of school teachers, college and university lecturers, ...

Therese Ducharme’s students hunkered over thick textbooks, heads cradled in hands, as if pained from deciphering b-squared, negative numbers, zeros. The complex language of algebra. Wednesday, ...

Don't turn the page. Do not, under any circumstances, think, "Algebra... ugh... what is the point?" Algebra is to me, a goddess. Algebra is the universal language ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Surprise: You can answer this question with modern algebra. Most folks who have been ...