The sixth graders at Khan Lab School, an independent school with an elementary campus in Palo Alto, Calif., were working on quadratic equations, graphing functions, Venn diagrams.

In a boon to algebra students everywhere, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University has devised a simpler and more efficient way to solve problems involving the quadratic equation.

A tweet has gone viral with users debating in the comments over the math used to solve a basic ... posted a basic algebra equation on Sunday afternoon: 6÷2(1 ... As explained by Khan Academy, ...