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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

That's a famous line in Federalist No. 51, generally attributed to James Madison—but not quite. The line is actually, in context, But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero, ...

Altars of Reflection are the primary source of skill points in Ghost of Yotei. These small shrines can be found all over Ezo, and bowing to them will allow you to learn new techniques for each of Atsu ...

Introduction Can you imagine a bouncy ball that could bounce back and forth between two walls, infinitely—that is, forever? Wouldn't that be amazing? What if, instead of a ball, light was bouncing ...