TL;DR: Right now, there’s a cultural push to untie the historical link between advanced math and programming that could partially deter engineers from entering the field. But those who have a strong ...

Psychohistory is “the destiny of the human race expressed in numbers.” In Foundation, an Apple TV+ series loosely based on the books by Isaac Asimov, psychohistory is the use of mathematical models to ...

Each time Xiuwen Wu greets a new class of preservice teachers studying math education at National Louis University in Wheeling, Ill., she asks them to take a survey. It asks about the future teachers’ ...

Every day, dozens of like-minded mathematicians gather on an online forum called Zulip to build what they believe is the future of their field. They’re all devotees of a software program called Lean.

While English, math and science form the trilogy of staple sectors that children learn throughout school, only one is frequently looked back on as "unnecessary," "unusable" or redundant to adult life.

Exploring new models for education is one of the pillars of President Frances Bronet’s inauguration and an important area of discussion in academia. We live during a time of dramatic change, where the ...

Math is everywhere around us, whether we realize it or not. Every time we conduct an internet search, order something online, or automatically get recommendations for products that we are looking for, ...

At Virginia Tech he was part of an elite crop of future educators who earned scholarships by committing to serve as math teachers in high-needs schools after graduation through a program called ...

Recent reports show that little has changed in mathematics instruction. Just over 20 years ago, A Nation at Risk proclaimed the “imperative of educational reform,” arguing (in 1983) that in the two ...