Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices.

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

Are students’ math struggles during the COVID-19 pandemic completely unprecedented? Yes and no. Disruption in schools has also meant disruption in testing, so it’s been hard to pin down exactly how ...

The Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (ESAM) at Northwestern University is highly interdisciplinary and focused on applications. Our faculty and students connect with ...

In Drexel University’s Department of Mathematics, students work alongside renowned faculty experts while gaining hands-on career and research experiences. The mathematics department at Drexel ...

A senior honors thesis is typically completed over two semesters, usually but not always in one's senior year. The student works on a project with a faculty mentor. Typically one registers for ...

Students from around the country participated in a unique, immersive program at FIU designed to improve access to research for undergraduates of diverse backgrounds including those who are typically ...

Are boys innately better at math and science? The question has generated heated debate for decades, with some researchers theorizing that differences in brain activity and hormones give males a ...

At just 24, Carina Hong has become one of the most talked-about young figures in AI, a China-born mathematician who dropped out of a Stanford Ph.D. program to build the AI math startup Axiom Math.

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