The confusion (likely intentional) boiled down to a discrepancy between the math rules used in grade school and in high school. By Steven Strogatz Recently I wrote about a math equation that had ...
Susan Hobart asked this week’s “question-of-the-week": What strategies help math facts stick besides the old “drill the skill” and, if someone is not proficient at addition facts, can learning ...
Teacher Maro Mirzakhanyan works with students on math activities at a Pacific Clinics Head Start preschool in Glendale. Credit: Lillian Mongeau, EdSource In response to mounting evidence that ...
“If your math’s not right, your house is weak,” Perry Wilson told an anxious but attentive group of 30 sixth graders from Bishop Middle School Wednesday. Wilson is the founder of If I Had a Hammer, a ...
Some good news for science and math teachers: Most Americans say they liked math and science in school. That’s one of the findings in a new survey by the Pew Research Center, which conducted a ...
Researchers set out to test whether bees could do math, building on a groundbreaking finding that bees understand the concept of zero. The new study shows bees can be taught to recognize colors as ...
Most famous equation: Einstein's E = mc2, which means energy is equal to mass times the speed of light squared. Known digits of pi: More than 105 trillion digits Digits of pi NASA uses for equations: ...
The goals for the Upward Bound Math and Science (UBMS) summer program is to grow our students’ passion for math and science, increase their academic skills, their desire to succeed in school, and to ...