Research has linked long term development of math skills with certain kinds of play. For some researchers, it’s clear that American students don’t ...

Application to everyday problems: When you encounter a solution that works really well, reverse-engineer it. For example, if ...

School systems where family income is highest are almost four times as likely to see full academic recovery for students, in both reading and math, than school systems where more students come from ...

While market-working kids in India excel at mental calculations, they struggle with textbook math — while schoolchildren fail ...

Given every two years to a sample of America’s children, the National Assessment of Educational Progress is considered one of the best gauges of the academic progress of the U.S. school system. The ...

You will also have the opportunity to choose a wide range of options outside the Department of Mathematics, including, for example a language, management or economics (subject to availability).

Format vs. round: A floating point number is stored in memory with a certain precision (usually 32 bits or 64 bits). For example math.pi is 3.141592653589793. Since pi is an irrational, this is still ...

Participants at this year’s Joint Mathematics Meetings explored everything from the role of A.I. to the hyperbolic design of a patchwork denim skirt. By Siobhan Roberts The world’s largest ...