While educators and policymakers debate whether 8th graders can be readied to learn algebra, Sigrid B. Frawley sits in front of her kindergartners with a magic bag. She puts three tokens in the bag ...

An equation of the form \(y = mx + c\) where \(m\) and \(c\) are numbers, gives a straight line when values of \(x\) and corresponding values of \(y\) are plotted on a grid. A straight line is a ...

There is a direct proportion between two values when one is a multiple of the other. For example, \(1\text{cm} = 10\text{mm}.\) To convert \(\text{cm}\) to \(\text{mm}\), the multiplier is always 10.

Courtney Gibbons is affiliated with the Association for Women in Mathematics and the American Mathematical Society. You might remember learning about the quadratic formula to figure out the solutions ...

Algebraic formulas play a very important role in solving aptitude questions related to various topics. It is estimated that 2-4 questions are always asked approximately in SSC exams from this section.