There is a general sense that programming is related to math and that people who are successful in math are often successful at programming. For math teachers, a natural question arises: “What is the ...

Imagine it’s a student’s first day of ninth grade in the San Francisco Unified School District in 2012. Let’s call her Veronica. On her schedule is a math class full of other ninth graders repeating ...

Last week I wrote about the birthday of the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace. Before she came up with the world’s first computer program (conceptually, at least), Lovelace was an ...

This post was updated to clarify benefits of the program to Oakland Unified students. A growing number of students in Oakland Unified are learning math by playing a computer game that asks students to ...

Penny Booth could have created a math program to hone the skills of the best pupils, paired them with veteran teachers and shown great progress. But what would that have proved? Baltimore County’s ...

In the summer of 1988, 15 seventh-grade students from across Chicago convened at the University of Chicago campus, forming the inaugural class of the Young Scholars Program, an exploratory mathematics ...

The Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new worlds for them to explore One of the biggest stories in science has been ...

Fifteen years after adopting an innovative math program for elementary schools, the Anchorage School District recently called in consultants to answer the question: Why aren't students making expected ...

The B.S. degree in mathematics is the minimal entry requirement for most careers in mathematics. It also helps prepare you for careers in health, science, and engineering. You will need two years of ...