When Mike Kenny was a fifth-grade teacher in Essex Junction, he learned early in his career that the traditional way to teach math, which includes repetitive practice of math problems, did not work ...

A simple finger trick for the 11 times table is helping secondary school students aged 12 to 16 improve mental arithmetic skills. By separating two-digit numbers, adding the digits, and inserting the ...

Agricultural experiments often go seriously awry, especially in the town of Ozark. Layla and Tristan “innocently” planted some genetically modified pumpkin seeds. The result was a pumpkin the size of ...

Instead of memorization and lectures in classrooms, SESP Prof. Jen Munson, who studies learning science, envisions a transformation in primary education where young students learn from games and fun ...

With the start of October comes the return of many Halloween traditions: Carving pumpkins, dressing up in costumes, and trick-or-treating the whole neighborhood. There will also be a lot of ...

Terence Tao, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, who is often called the “Mozart of Math,” would rather not talk politics. “I do scientific research,” Tao said. “I vote, I sign a petition, but ...

Oftentimes, math and art as subjects might seem like oil and water. Ingrid Daubechies and Dominique Ehrmann, however, sought to bridge a gap between the two mediums, creating an unconventional art ...

Time to test your brain! Are you a puzzle person? Most of these hard math problems aren’t straightforward arithmetic. They challenge you to look at problems a different way, testing your logic and ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. A data table is one of the core parts of any modern data-driven web application. This UI element, also known as a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.