Tag: Mathematics
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.
The better you are at math, the more money seems to...
Pär Bjälkebring, University of Gothenburg and Ellen Peters, University of Oregon
Your grade school math teacher probably told you...
Planning the best route with multiple destinations is hard even for...
Nathan Klein, University of Washington
Computers are good at answering questions. What’s the shortest route from my house to...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
