Everyone wants their kid to be good at math, right? Math — and the technology, finance, and engineering careers the follow from it — can be lucrative and interesting, but getting a child interested in ...

Let’s take a moment to imagine a world in which people not only “get” math... but love math. Where would we be as educators? As individuals? As a workforce? As an economy? As a country? My seventh ...

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At a meeting of 6,000 mathematicians in Boston, a reporter finds people dancing, crocheting, knitting and using theater to explore and celebrate their discipline. Last week in Boston, 7,000 ...

New University of Delaware alumna Jenna Paltenstein gravitated toward mathematics early, her love for the subject already evident in elementary school. When she got to UD, she took advantage of all it ...

I meet a lot of parents whose kids are still young, sometimes not even school age, who are already convinced that their kids are not cut out for careers in math, tech or science. One mom told me that ...

In 1974, a geneticist named Marsha Jean Falco devised an ingenious research tool to help determine whether epilepsy in dogs was an inherited trait. She drew a series of symbols on index cards, where ...

player Kevin Love math, sure. But those aren't the lessons that Love remembers most. Love credits the tough-love discussions with his high school math teacher for keeping his youthful ...

Over the three years Jordan Ellenberg was writing his book, he repeatedly encountered the same reaction to its subject. “I’d be at a party, and I’d tell someone what my book was about, and then I’d be ...