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Scientists have long known that mutations in certain genes affecting microtubules in plants can cause plants to grow in a twisting manner. In most cases, these are “null mutations,” meaning the ...

Pasco High School bilingual math teacher Gabriela Whitemarsh stands in front of Seattle artist Steve Gardner’s “Where Will You Go?” mural on campus. The 2010 piece depicts two people in a boat and ...

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...

This video explores one of Leonhard Euler’s most elegant ideas, showing how factorials can be used to connect π, square roots ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

Discover a fast and powerful calculus-based method for finding square roots with impressive accuracy. This explanation shows ...

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The math crisis narrative is now familiar: On the Nation’s Report Card in 2024, only two in five fourth graders were proficient in grade-level math. By eighth grade, proficiency drops to just one in ...

Years ago, no math education was complete without understanding how to compute a square root. Today, you are probably just reaching for a calculator, or if you are writing a program, you’ll probably ...

Utrecht University has appointed Michiel Doorman as Professor of Mathematics Education. His mission is to explore what mathematics education should look like in a rapidly changing world. The question ...