Watch as a frustrating math problem inspires a creative journey from paper to precision engineering. See how a simple multiplication error sparks the design of a mechanical DIY calculator, beautifully ...

A hands-on, integrated approach has the potential to transform math from a gatekeeper into a gateway for STEM opportunities for all students.

RIT alumnus Adam Giammarese received the Edward N. Lorenz Early Career Award for his Ph.D. research in chaos theory and ...

An analysis of data from 200,000 students using a computer-assisted math program supports an optimistic view of skill-focused ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, measuring for a DIY project, or just having a math-related brain teaser thrown your ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

Washington has an urgent math problem. Nearly one in three students cannot demonstrate basic grade-level skills, and among low-income students it’s almost one in two. In a state that prides itself on ...

A dad in Texas turned to social media for help after becoming increasingly confused by a third-grade math problem set for his child as homework. Marty posted a screenshot of the problem to Reddit ...

In what can be a lonely field for women even during the best of times, Marisol Hernández’s first year in engineering school coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, when classes were held remotely rather ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...