NASA is testing an innovative approach to help improve student performance in mathematics by challenging them to solve the real-world problems involved with controlling airplanes in the sky. During ...

The SpaceMath@NASA mathematics resource for teachers and students recently achieved a landmark number of downloads. On Feb. 23, 2011, a visitor downloaded the 3 millionth mathematics problem set from ...

NASA named 50 schools throughout the country on Tuesday for a program the space agency hopes will encourage students to study science, math and technology. The schools taking part in a three-year ...

Who said math couldn't be fun? In honor of the Pi Day of the century, 3.1415 (March 4, 2015), NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has created a dizzying math challenge. Hint: every solution will use the ...

Many years before Susan Kilrain became a U.S. Navy TA-4J Skyhawk flight instructor and the second female NASA astronaut to pilot a space shuttle, her dad supported her youthful dreams during an era ...

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Now the accolades are pouring in. Johnson, who along with other African-American women had to overcome racial and gender discrimination to rise through the ranks of NASA in the 1950s and ’60s, has ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. By the time NASA was preparing to send John ...

Raiganj: A Class IX student of Raiganj who topped a math Olympiad has won an educational trip to Nasa. Swaprabha Dey, a student of St Xaviers School of the town, had stood first in the International ...