In real life there are many scenarios where we calculate percentages in our minds, for example the amount of discount on goods, tips at restaurants and many more. Have you wondered, if you could ...

Imagine you're a trader. You're on the trading floor, trying to price out if a 15-year bond issued by General Electric will generate the returns needed to placate your investors. Bad news, your ...

A video of the trick was posted onto the Facebook page Mathematics Tutorial, showing a tutor breaking down a series of problems for viewers. It has received a rave reaction online with many calling it ...

Not everyone has an aptitude for maths. It's all too easy to forget even some of the basics once you've left school. Then there's the fact pretty much everyone has a calculator on their phone. All of ...

You probably haven’t had to do longhand math in years, but you do mental math every day. Or maybe you google math problems ten times a day, because you’ve forgotten how to do any math beyond your ...

YouTuber Kevin Lieber (who hosts the popular Vsauce2 series) has brought a classic math magic trick back from its ‘90s heyday. In the video, Lieber walks viewers through a magic trick where they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Math shouldn’t be harder than finding the last matching sock in your laundry. These clever shortcuts convert head-scratching ...

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