Garver engineers visited fourth grade students for National Engineering Week, using a gumdrop bridge challenge to spark a ...

When she was three years old, Indrani Das conducted her first scientific experiment. Inspired by a National Geographic feature about fossils found in bright blue Amazon waters, she spent weeks ...

Mathematics, like many other scientific endeavors, is increasingly using artificial intelligence. Of course, math is the backbone of AI, but mathematicians are also turning to these tools for tasks ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

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Cognitive overload can create a bottleneck during math lessons, but there are simple strategies to clear up students’ brain space for complex problem-solving.

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After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.

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