This summer, battle lines were drawn over a simple math problem: 8 ÷ 2(2 + 2) = ? If you divide 8 by 2 first, you get 16, but if you multiply 2 by (2 + 2) first, you get 1. So, which answer is right?

Multiplication of two numbers is easy, right? At primary school we learn how to do long multiplication like this: Methods similar to this go back thousands of years, at least to the ancient Sumerians ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Godslove Ampah (right), with math teacher Tonya Howard: “Whenever I look at an equation, I just ...