George Dantzig arrived late to class, copied two problems off the board thinking they were homework — and accidentally made ...

Statistical principles show you don’t need a nefarious plot to explain clusters of missing scientists and lab workers ...

May 7, 2026-The May issue of Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12 (MTLT) is now available.

Burt earned bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and modern languages from the University of Lowell in 1988 and a PhD in applied mathematics from Northwestern University in 1994. He joined WPI ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new tool to help people with visual impairments learn mathematical functions through the extensive use of sounds and touch. STEM subjects like mathematics are difficult ...

“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, “because that is what they will remember.” It’s a sentence that has made me ...

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this photo made with a long exposure, a SpaceX ...

The Ohio Senate passed a bill last week that would define antisemitism for state agency investigations, but not criminal investigations. Ohio Senate Bill 87 passed 27-4 during last Wednesday’s Senate ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared to be in disbelief on Wednesday when CBS News White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe asked for examples of when President Donald Trump had been ...

Incredible. What is wrong with local school administers and teachers? We have a huge percentage of students not proficient in either reading or math or basic economics, yet we encourage and allow them ...

Abstract: This article presents an intervention study on the effects of the combined methods of 1) the Socratic method, 2) chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, 3) simplified gamification, and 4) ...