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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Surprise: You can answer this question with modern algebra. Most folks who have ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Courtney Gibbons, Hamilton College (THE CONVERSATION) You scrambled up a Rubik’s ...