In order to aid students with their GCSE maths course, I have prepared handouts which given clear explanations with worked examples If you would like to look at the way the handouts are layout out ...

History is full of backstabbing rivalries: Edison and Tesla, Harding and Kerrigan, Tupac and Biggie. No less dramatic was a 16th-century conflict between Italian mathematicians Gerolamo Cardano, a ...

§CQ.1 THE FIRST GREAT ADVANCE in algebra after the Middle Ages was the general solution of the cubic equation, immediately followed by a solution for the quartic. I tell the full story in the next ...

A worksheet on solving polynomial equations (quadratic and higher order) by factoring and using the quadratic formula. The given polynomials can be factored using the methods of common factor, ...

This jingle has helped generations of algebra students recall the quadratic formula that solves every equation of the form $latex ax^2+bx+c=0$. The formula is as ...