While snakes and ladders is purely a game of chance, there is a way to add some strategy, says mathematician Peter Rowlett ...

Mary Crippen, a third grade educator based in Florida, built NFeLementary by expanding on a football-based curriculum her ...

The nation’s report card shows math scores at a 20-year low, and Arizona is no exception, with only 28% of eighth graders ...

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Neuromorphic computers, inspired by the architecture of the human brain, are proving surprisingly adept at solving complex mathematical problems that underpin scientific and engineering challenges.

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

“Mathematics is the art of reducing any problem to linear algebra.” This is a quote often attributed to William Stein, a former mathematics professor at the University of Washington, now the lead ...

Even before the formal presentation started at D.C.’s Noyes Elementary on Thursday night, students were eager to show off. They bounced from one table to another, rolling dice, flipping coins and ...

The start of a new school year brings adjustments to routines and schedules for students. Students are encouraged to learn life lessons beyond academics, such as being a friend and taking ...

LOUISA COUNTY, Va. — Some students don't know that chicken nuggets are actually made of chicken. It sounds silly, but knowledge of farming is something some students just don't get. Not in Louisa ...

In the 1960s, the Soviet climatologist and mathematician Mikhail Budyko set out to investigate the potential future of a planet on the brink of nuclear Armageddon. He started by looking some 600 ...

Terence Tao, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, who is often called the “Mozart of Math,” would rather not talk politics. “I do scientific research,” Tao said. “I vote, I sign a petition, but ...