STEM: science, technology, engineering, and of course, mathematics. It’s time for math to take center stage. When most people talk STEM, they’re likely focused on S-T-E. If math is at all mentioned, ...
Explorations in Undergraduate Mathematics: A Playful Journey into Mathematics is a magazine and special project written and edited by a group of undergraduate students from Professor Debra K.
This week, we’re helping a Louisiana class subscribe to a math magazine that offers print and digital resources, and a Missouri class get some big Lego projects that will challenge their ...
Editor’s note: In 1976, in the pages of Ms. magazine, Sheila Tobias explored the topic of “math anxiety”: the tendency of women to avoid mathematics as it became more difficult, which stemmed, in part ...
Symplectic geometry is a relatively new field with implications for much of modern mathematics. Here’s what it’s all about. In the early 1800s, William Rowan Hamilton discovered a new kind of ...
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If mathematicians have no reason to pursue the mysteries of their field, the rest of us will stumble into a less certain ...
Math education outcomes in the United States have been unequal for decades. Learners in the top 10% socioeconomically tend to be about four grade levels ahead of learners in the bottom 10%—a statistic ...