Tag: Mathematics
Math teachers hold a bias against girls when the teachers think...
Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, University of Southern California; Ian Thacker, The University of Texas at San Antonio, and Joseph Cimpian, New York University
Declines in math readiness underscore the urgency of math awareness
Manil Suri, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
When President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the first National Math Awareness Week in...
Pi gets all the fanfare, but other numbers also deserve their...
Manil Suri, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
March 14 is celebrated as Pi Day because the date, when written...
Synchrony with chaos – blinking lights of a firefly swarm embody...
Raphael Sarfati, University of Colorado Boulder
Imagine an old-growth forest in the fading light of a summer evening. As...
‘There’s only so far I can take them’ – why teachers...
Jessica Calarco, Indiana University and Ilana Horn, Vanderbilt University
Whenever “Gina,” a fifth grader at a suburban public school...
Students perceive themselves as a ‘math person’ or a ‘reading person’...
Sirui Wan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
Women are better at statistics than they think
Jonathan B. Santo, University of Nebraska Omaha and Kelly Rhea MacArthur, University of Nebraska Omaha
The Research Brief is...
Dunkology 101: How the NBA could take a more scientific approach...
Justin Barber, University of Kentucky
I grew up watching some of the greatest slam dunk artists in the world.
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
