athematics is, at its core, an art. Like painters, musicians or writers, mathematicians create and explore new worlds. They ...

Mathematicians and computer scientists answered major questions in topology, set theory and even physics, even as computers continued to grow more capable. Mathematicians and computer scientists had ...

STEM: science, technology, engineering, and of course, mathematics. It’s time for math to take centerstage. When most people talk STEM, they’re likely focused on S-T-E. If math is at all mentioned, it ...

Mathematics Magazine presents articles and notes on undergraduate mathematical topics in a lively expository style that appeals to students and faculty throughout the undergraduate years. The journal ...

Here’s a simple-sounding problem: Imagine a circular fence that encloses one acre of grass. If you tie a goat to the inside of the fence, how long a rope do you need to allow the animal access to ...

George Berzsenyi is a retired math professor living in Milwaukee County. Most people have never heard of him. But Berzsenyi has had a remarkable impact on American science and mathematics. He has ...

Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. “I’ve seen enthusiasm in some of the children who normally didn’t do as well, paper-to-pencil, but when ...

Math education outcomes in the United States have been unequal for decades. Learners in the top 10% socioeconomically tend to be about four grade levels ahead of learners in the bottom 10%—a statistic ...

A few years back, a prospective doctoral student sought out Sylvia Serfaty with some existential questions about the apparent uselessness of pure math. Serfaty, then newly decorated with the ...

When I was in grade- and high school, math was my arch-intimidator. I didn’t enjoy it, and at some point I decided I wasn’t a “math person.” It felt like a game I couldn’t master. In English and ...

You’re a seventh-grade girl, and in all probability you would give your Swatch to know what that guy who sits across the aisle from you — the one with the rad jams (translation: nice looking shorts) — ...