Students should be able to perform basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) and have an understanding of basic Algebra. Students should also understand what the basic number ...

One of my fellow contributors here recently wrote a post about leap years and why we have them. This reminded me of modular arithmetic and the formula for calculating the day of the week for any date ...

While her grade school classmates were learning the alphabet and how to count to five, Andrea Bertozzi remembers studying negative numbers and modular arithmetic. Math often gets a bad rap as an ...