Let’s be honest - this quiz is very basic. We’re talking simple additions and subtractions, easy fractions, percentages, ...

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Retired engineer and inventor Ed Evenson might have a 0.00001 chance of changing the way math is taught in Illinois, but you won’t catch him giving a half-effort. Evenson, of Rolling Meadows, says ...

Since 2010, Motion Math has released nine math games which have been downloaded over four million times and earned a slew of awards. I wanted to try these highly acclaimed games for myself so I ...

Many children never master fractions. When asked whether 12/13 + 7/8 was closest to 1, 2, 19, or 21, only 24% of a nationally representative sample of more than 20,000 US 8th graders answered ...