Take the pressure off of problem-solving with engaging thinking games that encourage students to work together to find ...

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One Polk Central Elementary student summed up Polk County Schools’ first math festival with a revelation: they didn’t know math could be fun. The math festival, held November 25 at Polk Central ...

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(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...

A dad was reviewing his son’s math homework assignment when the unexpected appearance of two words, scribbled in pencil, stopped him in his tracks. Reading the words back to himself, Dave Robbins, a ...

Started by CU Boulder applied mathematics Teaching Professor Silva Chang, Colorado Math Circle is celebrating 20 years of bringing middle and high school students together in a community that has fun ...

Class is almost over—but instead of zoning out or packing up early, your students are hunched over their work, erasing, recalculating, and debating. The room buzzes with the rich math talk every ...

Every other week, a quiet but exciting tradition plays out in Kenyon’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics: One intriguing problem is distributed by email and posted online on the department page ...

Jenny Quinn, executive director of the Seattle Universal Math Museum, shows off a solved Fibonacci sequence puzzle. (GeekWire Photo / Maddie Stoll) Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She ...