But primes are often considered the building blocks of mathematics, and math itself is the scaffolding that supports ...

All these students fulfilled the University of California’s math requirement and most completed additional courses — one in ...

I can’t recall the last time the death of a school teacher, much less a math teacher, attracted as much attention as the recent death of Jaime Escalante. Of course, it doesn’t hurt to have a movie ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The idea of “reflection” is one of several Euclidean motions in a plane that are studied in ...

Part of the joy of the winter break is that it’s a chance to read something longer than twenty pages. I spent part of it reading Cathy O’Neil’s “Weapons of Math Destruction,” which is well worth ...

New research by University at Buffalo and University of Colorado Boulder mathematicians has uncovered and characterized novel two-dimensional wave patterns — waves that propagate along two directions ...

The Mathematics Teacher (MT), an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, is devoted to improving mathematics instruction from grade 8-14 and supporting teacher education ...

Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 426-440 (15 pages) Following Matthew Lipman (Lipman, 1991; Lipman, Sharp, & Oscanyan, 1980), we ...

Translations and reflections are examples of transformations of shapes. If a shape is transformed, its position and/or size is changed. Translation is when a shape slides across, up, down or ...

The SLIIT MathFest 2023 organised by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics (DMS) was successfully held on the 26th of August at the SLIIT auditorium, Malabe. The occasion was graced by the ...