From Monopoly to Backgammon to Yahtzee, our first experiences with board games almost always feature sets of six-sided dice. They’re a great way to create some randomness and chaos in a game, but ...

Understand the nature of your problems – and how to solve them. (Image: Supplied) In an ideal world, problems would melt away. But this side of the rainbow, we’re left to solve them on our own.

We draw attention to some important nonlinear equations commonly arising in applied probability, review some known techniques to compute their minimal nonnegative solutions, propose improved iterative ...

The mathematical performance of 250 U. S. sixth-grade students from both private and public schools and 425 Chinese sixth graders from both key and common schools was examined on multiple-choice tasks ...