In 1964, he pooled money from friends and investors, bought thousands of tickets covering strategic combinations, and won his ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

After previously discussing permutations, Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses step-by-step examples and full code presentations to explore combinations. A zero-based mathematical (n, k) ...

Randomly scramble the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 to form a seven-digit number (or a six-digit number if the leading digit is 0). Rank the following events in order ...

In my writings I try to take a math-based approach to the game without actually going over too much – well – actual math. For the type of games I write for, getting the math exactly right to the ...