Mathematics News

Editor's note: Michael Latta is executive director of YTMBA, a Myrtle Beach, S.C., research and consulting firm.

For five consecutive years I presented the BeerCity USA poll here in this column.

Germany's trade surplus narrowed in January, as an increase in exports from Europe's largest economy was more than offset by a rise in imports.

Imagine you had to take an art class in which you were taught how to paint a fence or a wall, but you were never shown the paintings of the great masters, and you weren't even told that such paintings existed.

Superintendent Kenneth Rota said that the Partnership Assessment for Readiness of College and Careers testing will replace the NJASK and HSPA tests.

George Osborne's austerity policies have helped to push average private sector pay above public sector pay, official research has showed.

Ask any school-aged child to recite their multiplication tables for you. Better yet, ask any child if they even like math.

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For most of my life I have used graphics as a way to model a problem facing me and working through, if not to a solution, to an organized structure that allows me to see a pattern that in turn leads me to an answer.

Startup Muster 2013 is a survey of the Australian startup community to take a snapshot of what Australia has accomplished in 2013, launching on February 28th, 2014.

My new book Four Lives: A Celebration of Raymond Smullyan has just been released by Dover Publications.

Two Cleveland State students placed in the recent Tennessee Mathematics Association of Two Year Colleges state competition.

Marisa Jackson plans two months ahead to make sure she can cover her family's routine expenses on her minimum-wage pay.

Competitions are pivotal part of learning mathematics and mathematics is important for us as a nation to be competitive in the 21st century economy.

"Are you talking about you?" President Barack Obama quoted the reaction of a young African-American man at the recent announcement of the My Brother's Keeper Initiative.

Scientific Computing is excited to be celebrating its 30th year in 2014, and we have a terrific line-up of new things we will be introducing throughout the coming months.

The certificate is a fairly new thing. More employers around the country and the state are accepting or requiring the certification, but not too many locally yet.

Anyone who knows the recent research that shows that a reader's brains are directly, measurably affected by reading fiction won't be surprised to learn that mathematics can have a similar effect - at least on mathematicians.

Circulation Research , Vol. 91, No. 8. , pp. 662-671, doi:10.1161/01.res.0000037427.73184.c1 Since the late 1970s when many journals published articles warning about the misuse of statistical methods in the analysis of data, researchers have become more careful about statistical analysis, but errors including low statistical power and inadequate ... (more)

In this Nov. 2, 2010 file photo South Carolina School Superintendent, Mick Zais, center, greets supporters at a GOP event for South Carolina governor-elect Nikki Haley in Columbia, S.C. Zais says South Carolina high school students who don't plan to go to college should be able to choose more practical courses than algebra II, English literature ... (more)