Dylan Kane likes his math curriculum. But there’s one important piece missing, he says. The 7th grade math teacher in Leadville, Colo., uses a program that teaches math skills through real-world ...
Who will win the Champions League? Experts, players, coaches, fans, they all have an opinion on this - and it's partly personal. But what does a neutral supercomputer fed with data have to say?
The quote of the day by Blaise Pascal reminds us that human life is rarely governed by pure logic. His famous words state that the heart has its reasons of which reason knows absolutely nothing. This ...
A Nakuru-based teacher has set a new Guinness World Record for the longest marathon mathematics lesson by an individual after teaching continuously for 45 hours, smashing a record that had been set ...
Ever see those precipitation percentages in the weather forecast and wonder how meteorologists decided on that number?
Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 explores the unexpected math behind patterns compared to chaotic probability.
From counting sheep to cows jumping over the moon, bedtime is full of math traditions and opportunities to use math talk. Try ...
A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts Recently there ...
Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
Imagine you and I decide to play a simple game of chance. We each throw $50 into a pot and start flipping a coin. Heads, you get a point; tails, I get one. The first person to reach 10 points walks ...