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By hiding math's great masterpieces from students' view, we deny them the beauty of the subject.
Learn more about majoring in math at the University of Nevada, Reno, and find out about careers you can pursue with a degree in mathematics.
A Harvard researcher has traced the roots of our math curriculum back through the centuries. And it hasn't changed much.
Mathematics has been a human endeavor for millennia. It has always been driven by two sources: the intrinsic beauty of numbers, shapes, and structures on the one hand and the necessity to solve ...
The big idea In virtual classrooms, math teachers deem Black students as less capable than white students. They also view girls as less capable than boys.
A global pandemic didn’t stop a group of Pine View High School students from coming together to participate in an international math competition. A combination of math smarts and creative ...
Participation in an intensive online math competition has added up to a first-place win for a group of Florida high school students. The team of five 11th- and 12th-graders from Pine View School i… ...
Michael Barany, a historian of mathematics and science at the University of Edinburgh, said he wondered whether that was a meaningful mathematical milestone.