A blog post on Wednesday sparked a thoughtful online debate about whether math education in the United States needs to be improved. — offered two anecdotes to underscore that other countries seem to ...

“Why bring together two fields that seem to many people so very disparate? What could mathematics and poetry share, except that the mention of either one is sometimes enough to bring an uneasy chill ...

Do you know your geometry from your arithmetic and your fractions from your logs? Let’s find out! Think of this as a math class without the quizzes, where every problem has a twist solution, every ...

Yes to four years of math. First, we are told, life has changed. The cost of living isn't what it used to be. Seventh-grade math skills don't cut it. Second, my white middle-class progeny has lots of ...

Of all of the things going on in the world, perhaps a single-solving constant and a continually gathering thread that brings people together with committed commonality is math. Five is the same there ...

In “How Julia Robinson helped define the limits of mathematical knowledge” (SN: 11/23/19, p. 22), Evelyn Lamb examined the life and career of mathematician Julia Robinson, who helped redefine the ...

Here is another compilation of Good e-Reader Top 10 Apps for Google Android, this time targeting kids and education. All the apps mentioned here have one thing in common: all of them are designed to ...