Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most ...

Daniel Glasscock, an assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, tapped two undergraduate students to verify his ...

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Many important insights can be gained through the study of complex datasets, for example from census and medical data, but these datasets often contain sensitive personal information. So, how can ...

Students in Years 1 and 2, the equivalent of kindergarten and first grade in the U.S., prepare for a math lesson at St. Clair School in Dunedin, New Zealand. Credit: Becki Moss for The Hechinger ...

When Carrie Diaz Eaton trained as a mathematician, they didn’t expect their career to involve social-justice research. Growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, Diaz Eaton first saw social justice in ...

A good teaching and learning session is much more dependent on the aspects of the teacher’s subject content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge and technological content knowledge. All these ...

Introducing new math concepts via already-worked examples can give students a significant boost in learning. But choosing the right problems makes a big difference. An analysis earlier this year of ...

The pandemic has smacked American students back to the last century in math and reading achievement, according to the tests known as the Nation’s Report Card. Results for students who took the test in ...

(Inside Science) -- In addition to deciding who will be the President, incumbent Barack Obama, or challenger Mitt Romney, many other state and local races and issues will be settled in tomorrow’s U.S.