Laubenbacher intrigued the teachers by showing them a video clip of a human cell going after a bacterium, successfully chasing and eating the dangerous organism. “That’s an interesting pattern,” he ...

Helping kids learn patterns can develop math skills. Poughkeepsie Day School, CC BY-NC-SA Parents and teachers know that reading to their children in preschool and kindergarten is important. But how ...

This photograph does a pretty good job of "describing" ripples. But a mathematician could do it with greater precision and predictive power. Image credit: andressolo, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 "How is it ...

Most of us have seen the bell curve, which depicts a standard statistical distribution for many phenomena, such as a population’s average weight. People tend to cluster around the median of such ...