News

Amid fears of layoffs and other cuts in the school district, there are bright spots like the middle school math team, which last week won the Massasoit Mathematics League championship.
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 ...
Fifteen years after the calamitous rollout of the Common Core math standards, the once-derided strategy has proven its ...
When Xu isn’t thinking about math, he can be found training in Taekwondo, reading books, researching politics or, “weather permitting,” out on the ski slopes.
The largest experiment to date comparing commercial math curricula gives a slight edge to two popular programs.
Maybe the math behind string theory is overrated anyway 80 years ago, Gödel demonstrated that formal systems that can perform math can … ...
Still, the work suggests that when it comes to math, elementary school teachers need, at the very least, to put on a much braver face before they do a math problem on the chalk board. PNAS, 2010.
Do people need a functional understanding of math to function in this world?
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 ...