Five years ago, as his time as Louisiana’s superintendent of education was coming to an end, John White granted The 74 an ...

Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of ...

Jensen’s economic argument for networking goes something like this: If you buy more on a faster fabric, better cooling, or smarter software and it improves efficiency or utilization enough, then the ...

To make the math work, builders are cutting hallways, diminishing bedrooms, and designing "Tetris" style floor plans that ...

For each subject Aftermath offers a raft of examples begging ... is to sneak traditional math into these subjects; algebraic manipulation can be taught through optimization problems, geometry via ...

The opportunity to reflect on what they know helps students strengthen their mathematical understanding and supports ...

In a country that boasts of Aryabhatta and the invention of zero, and Ramanujan's number theory, LMSI has the job to build ...

Over the last half 50 years, fractals have challenged ideas about geometry and pushed math, science and technology into unexpected areas.

Higher math scores are generally linked to college opportunities and more lucrative careers. Despite this, one in four fourth-graders nationally cannot do math at a basic level, the report found.

For example, power functions can be used to describe gravitational forces in physics and population growth dynamics in biology; while polynomials can model demand-supply dynamics in economics and ...