Understanding the link between ratios and fractions is a valuable skill to practise. There are nine circles. 4 circles are orange and 5 circles are blue. Find the fraction of orange circles, the ...

“Do you see the pattern? Each number in the series after the first two numbers is the sum of the preceding two numbers.” That’s how I began my last column focusing on the Fibonacci sequence, which ...

The chart above shows the male-female test score ratio for the 2009 SAT math test (data here). For example, for perfect scores of 800, males (6,928) outnumbered females (3,124) by a ratio of 2.22 to 1 ...

My colleague Joni Lakin, Assistant Professor at Auburn University, sends me her latest paper titled “Sex differences in reasoning abilities: Surprising evidence that male-female ratios in the tails of ...

Glenn Wilkins is a journalist for Baystreet.ca. He has 30+ years of journalism experience in various media outlets. Natalya Yashina is a CPA, DASM with over 12 years of experience in accounting ...

In September I had a post about the 2010 Math SAT test results, and reported on the gender differences in favor of males, who scored 34 points higher on average this year than their female ...