Writing a math answer for a Problem of the Week is very different from writing an essay in English class or a term paper in History class, so we would like to give you some guidelines. You write only one document, but we receive sometimes as many as 300-400 (or more) answers per week to [...]
Observe the following fraction addition carefully: 1 6 — + — = 1 4 8 On the left side of the equation there are four distinct digits — 1, 4, 6, and 8. While that may not look like earth-shattering news to some people, I think it looks nice. Can you make up a similar [...]
A Case Approach Everyone, or nearly everyone it seems, hates fractions, especially their addition and the other operations. Of particular note is the fact that the rules for addition and multiplication are often confused and interchanged, and the rule for division is just plain forgotten. This article attempts to present WTM’s own approach to one [...]