Teachers can use these tools to promote discussions and help students move from concrete to abstract understanding of concepts.

It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A broad new method can help settle this ancient question. In June 1978, the ...

Math offers us lots of problem-solving techniques that help us distill the essence of questions. Many of us will be familiar with reading a math problem, and needing to figure out what's being asked, ...

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From basic math to pre-calculus, Microsoft Mathematics includes features that makes it easy to create graphs in 2D and 3D, calculate numerical results, solve equations or inequalities, and simplify ...