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Teaching Children Mathematics (TCM) is an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and is intended as a resource for elementary school students, teachers, and teacher ...

Math phobes are wrong! Mathematics is just a language, and language is only a habit of thought. -- E.O. Wilson, in his latest book, "The Creation" 2006 If you lie down at the base of a tree and look ...

This review explores how hidden mathematical principles influence creativity, from locust swarms to concert hall designs. It ...

In 1999, while sitting at a bus stop in Cuernavaca, Mexico, a Czech physicist named Petr Šeba noticed young men handing slips of paper to the bus drivers in exchange for cash. It wasn’t organized ...

A leopard is chasing a zebra, bound to follow the laws of nature and natural selection, down a sand dune and across a plain of dried mud, bound to the laws of geology and sediments. The stripes of the ...

Move over, worksheets and pencils! The team behind The Grapes of Math once again proves that posing number problems through verse and vivid pictures is a powerful path to math learning. With titles ...

The answer is not simple. Yes, algorithms can generate visual works, music, or even poetry based on coded formulas. But discovery, in the true sense of the word, requires more than replication. It ...