Why play matters: Shifting math from rigid drills to playful exploration helps reduce anxiety and fosters a lasting love for ...

Several fields of mathematics have developed in total isolation, using their own 'undecipherable' coded languages. Mathematicians now present 'big algebras,' a two-way mathematical 'dictionary' ...

On April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's voting map on the basis that the state had illegally used race as ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help ...

The key to improving math outcomes isn’t a new program — it’s transforming how teachers understand and teach the subject.

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Diophantus of Alexandria revolutionized algebra with Arithmetica, pioneering symbolic notation and abstract number theory.

At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s ...

Have you ever wondered whether mathletes can go pro? Since 1959, the answer has been “yes” – with the height of achievement ...

Isolating the first spark of life on Earth is a matter of biology, geology, and chemistry—but it's also an amazing math problem. At least, that's how Varun Varanasi viewed it when he was a Yale ...

Carnegie Mellon University’s Irene Fonseca uses the power of math to make everyday life better. Her ideas help create stronger materials, shaper images and new tools in engineering and physics, ...