Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. From the abacus to the slide rule, tools for calculating have been around since ancient times. But it wasn’t ...

If your 8-cylinder Chevrolet Camaro has 3 5/8 gallons of gas left and you have 1 1/2 gallons of spare gas in the trunk, you can figure out how many miles that will take you with the calculator on your ...

The first handheld graphing calculator, the Casio fx-7000G, appeared in 1985. Since then, graphing calculators have become a common – and controversial – tool for learning mathematics. These devices ...

If you were to add \(\frac{1}{2}\) and \(\frac{1}{3}\), it is hard to picture what the answer would be. Rewriting the fractions with a common bottom number, or denominator (in this case, \({6}\)), ...

A fraction is part of a whole and is shown by writing one whole number above another. The top number is called the numerator and the bottom number is the denominator. Fractions are equivalent if they ...