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Jenny Quinn, executive director of the Seattle Universal Math Museum, shows off a solved Fibonacci sequence puzzle. (GeekWire ...
Math isn’t just about answers—the process matters, too. These strategies spotlight reasoning and reveal student thinking.
A little friendly competition can make reviewing math content fun and engaging while boosting student learning.
In the years leading up to the pandemic, the gender gap had nearly closed. But within a few years, girls lost all the ground ...
The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so ...
Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered ...
Barrier-grid animations (also called scanimations) are a thing most people would recognize on sight, even if they didn’t know what they were called. Move a set of opaque strips over a ...
Education reporters Annie Ma and Sharon Lurye noticed a study indicating girls’ math scores fell behind boys’ during the ...
A Los Alamos scientist has shown that quantum computers can be used to “factorize” group representations, a mathematical ...