I’m a journalism student in college, and math is one of the requirements for not only graduation, but also to help me transfer to a four-year school. There are going to be some situations coming my ...

The ability to round a number to a number of decimal places or to a number of significant figures is essential if answers are to be written to the correct degree of accuracy asked for in a question.

You’re likely familiar with Pi Day, perhaps the most popular of geeky holidays. Hooray. But I’m here to tell you that Pi Day is wrong — or rather, the entire idea of pi as a mathematical concept is ...