Over a decade ago, I learned about a pioneering course at Cabrillo College in California. In it, students collected survey data in their neighborhoods on issues such as youth gangs or discrimination ...

Welcome to the SciFri Book Club page about Is Math Real? by Eugenia Cheng. There’s lots of ways to participate: Read the book, join our community space, attend an event, sign up for our email ...

There has been a lot of hand-wringing over the past few decades about STEM education and the need to ensure that students leave school with solid math ability. A good understanding of math is a ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this Commentary illustration included an incorrect math formula. The correct formula for calculating the area of a circle is A=πr^2. When I was a kid, I hated math. I ...

The designers for Monte Vista Elementary School’s proposed outdoor classroom had some key questions to answer: What materials could they use while staying under the district’s $10,000 budget? How much ...

It’s not as hard as you think to find math in unexpected places—real-world math surrounds and influences us each day “One of the challenges of teaching math, particularly in the United States, is that ...

Think math is uninteresting? Try using it to answer fundamental problems that provoke interest and wonderment, such as calculating the distance to the moon. "It is a beautiful problem with an eloquent ...

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RIT’s computational mathematics major emphasizes problem-solving using mathematical models to identify solutions in business, science, engineering, and more. Learn by Doing: Gain experience through an ...