A grade-school math problem has stumped people. Can you solve the equation?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A viral mathematics problem has caused quite the debate as confusion over the correct way to solve it has many scratching their ...

It began early this week when a Twitter user named Em tweeted the equation 8 ÷ 2(2 + 2) = ?. Many calculated the problem and came up with an answer of 16. But others did the math just as confidently ...

The confusion (likely intentional) boiled down to a discrepancy between the math rules used in grade school and in high school. By Steven Strogatz Recently I wrote about a math equation that had ...