Elementary school teachers in this country, by and large, are generalists. That means they’re required to teach everything—math, science, language arts, history, you name it, regardless of how ...

Mark Schneider, the former chief of the U.S. Department of Education’s statistical office, lays bare the discrepancy between American high schoolers’ enrollment in tougher math classes, their alleged ...

Sipping a cup of coffee in the Los Angeles courthouse where he is on trial for fraud, math teacher Matthias Vheru said all he wanted to do was write the best algebra book possible to help his students ...

The problem with people like Pat Mara is that behind those friendly eyes and that soft-spoken manner is a brain where the sines and cosines, algorithms and logarithms of mathematics make sense. Maybe ...

A team of students from Palo Alto High School placed third in a national math contest, the 2009 Team Scramble administered by National Assessment & Testing. The contest was held Nov. 5. Coach Suz ...

You have a burning thought on the zeroes of the Riemann zeta function or a hankering to work on Yang-Mills theory. Or maybe an irrepressible inkling about quadratic residues is on your mind.

"Conservatives like iceberg lettuce, whereas liberals like arugula." It's a mathematical equation. Matt Gattis, co-founder of Hunch.com—a Web site that helps users make decisions based on personality ...

, a junior at Corcoran High School in Syracuse, stares down a math problem during the 32nd annual Onondaga County Math League All-County Competition held at Cicero-North Syracuse High School Saturday.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In the computer science lab where they work at MIT, Erik and Martin ...

Science is all about making models. It is true that many current models are mathematical models, but it doesn't have to be that way, and it hasn't always been that way. Think about rubbing a piece of ...

(CareerBuilder)-- In elementary school, there are classes you always look forward to -- gym, home economics and choir -- and classes you don't -- like English, science and geometry. But as you grow up ...