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Let’s teach students why math matters in the real world

“When will I ever use this?” It’s a question math and science teachers hear all the time from their ...
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Inspired by Genius: How a Mathematician Found His Way

Credit: The mathematician Ken Ono in his office at Emory University in Atlanta. Raymond McCrea Jones ...
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Has one of math’s greatest mysteries, the Riemann hypothesis, finally ...

Over the past few days, the mathematics world has been abuzz over the news that Sir Michael Atiyah, ...
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If Mathematicians Were in Charge of Punctuation

Credit: Getty Images Better living through set-builder notation As a publicly mathematical person, o ...
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Can bees do maths? Yes – new research shows they ...

The humble honeybee can use symbols to perform basic maths including addition and subtraction, shows ...
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Human Body Ratios

Credit: If you know your height, can you predict how big your arm span is? What about the length of ...
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Using computers to crack open centuries-old mathematical puzzles

In mathematics, no researcher works in true isolation. Even those who work alone use the theorems an ...
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How to Look at Art: A Mathematician’s Perspective

Credit: Annalisa Crannell analyzes art with the help of chopsticks and projective geometry. Evelyn L ...
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What happens when a raindrop hits a puddle?

Have you ever taken a walk through the rain on a warm spring day and seen that perfect puddle? You k ...
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How to Confuse a Traveling Mathematician

Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Thinkstock Images/photoncatcher An embellished account of a border ...
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Mathematics of scale: Big, small and everything in between

Breathe. As your lungs expand, air fills 500 million tiny alveoli, each a fraction of a millimeter a ...
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How Math Puzzles Help You Plan the Perfect Party

Credit: Getty Images The right mix of people who already know one another, of boys and girls–R ...
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Mathematics is about wonder, creativity and fun, so let’s teach ...

Alice in Wonderland enthusiasts recently celebrated the story’s anniversary with creative events lik ...
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How Math Helped Me Learn Early Music

Abstract algebra class gave me the kick in the rear I needed to focus on the relationships between n ...
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A Hippocratic Oath for data science? We’ll settle for a ...

Bias in, bias out: many algorithms have inherent design problems. Vintage Tone/Shutterstock Could th ...
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How Does a Mathematician’s Brain Differ from That of a ...

Credit: Getty Images Processing high-level math concepts uses the same neural networks as the basic ...
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