Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Applied mathematicians use math to model real-world situations. Ariel Skelley/DigitalVision via Getty Images You can probably ...

Make sure you are confident in solving one and two-step linear equations and expanding brackets in order to tackle these more complex types of equations. Substitute close substituteIn algebra, to ...

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In theory, almost any aspect of the physical world can be modeled and analyzed mathematically. In practice though, performing the mathematical manipulations required to perform an analysis can rapidly ...

For most people the answer involves finding the nearest calculator. For 11-year-old Ethan Brown of Bethel, however, the answer -- 974,169 -- takes just a few seconds of mental effort. Ethan learned ...

Electronics can be seen as really just an application of physics, and you could in turn argue that physics is the application of math to the real world. Unfortunately, the way most of us were taught ...

A number machine is a way of writing rules using a flow diagram. The equation \(3j - 6 = 9\) can be shown on a number machine by writing out the functions that have been applied to \(j\) in the order ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...