The Monthly publishes articles, as well as notes and other features, about mathematics and the profession. Its readers span a broad spectrum of mathematical interests, and include professional ...

A graphic artist is testing everyone’s knowledge of the mathematical order of operations with a string of numbers and missing arithmetic symbols. Gergely Dudás, of Budapest, Hungary, shared the new ...

It is a common trend in the sports world for any and all personalities therein to adopt various buzz words and jargon. Words or phrases that are either rooted in obscurity or just tossed out to ...

Social media users have been left in a tizzy over a seemingly perplexing math equation, causing a rift as folks argue over the right answer and how to perform the order of operations. The question was ...

The Jets are adding, all right. Now, it's a question of whether all that physiological math will turn out as addition by addition, or subtraction by addition. We're talking about Santonio Holmes and ...

Equations in parentheses must be solved first, following exponents, multiplication, division, addition, and then subtraction.

Korean children's ability to solve addition problems with sums of 10, single-digit addition problems with sums between 10 and 18, and single-digit subtraction problems with minuends between 10 and 18 ...