March 22 is one day that Yale freshman Xiaosheng Mu is not likely to forget. That morning, he solved a mathematics problem that first drew his attention two years ago and had challenged him ever since ...

Tom Henderson, of the Math for Primates podcast and MathPunk.net, has a Kickstarter campaign to raise money so he can write a Punk Mathematics book. What's punk mathematics? Well, as Tom explains, ...

The federal Institute of Education Sciences has just awarded $10 million to launch a new research and development center focused on improving math instruction for middle schoolers. The emphasis will ...

This is a question that comes up every now in then. But I would like to ask a few similar questions with my first order approximation answers. I would love to hear some other ideas on these questions.

Velázquez Press in El Monte, Calif., has published a Spanish and English glossary for math terms that could be a good resource for Spanish speakers either in a bilingual or sheltered English math ...

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Girls have long embraced the stereotype that they’re not supposed to be good at math. It seems they may be getting the idea from a surprising source -- their female elementary school teachers. First- ...

Nickelodeon, whose preschool shows focus on teaching social skills as much as letters and numbers, will move squarely into the academic realm, with the introduction of “Team Umizoomi,” which it said ...

Determining what is real and what is fake has long been a problem for art curators. It is estimated that 20 percent of the worldwide art market is made up of forgeries. But art lover and Dartmouth ...