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Children can find inspiration to engage their imagination over the summer. Grownups can harness this creative thinking by giving young children the time, space and independence to try new ideas, says ...

A bill moving through the California Legislature would test students as early as kindergarten on math. It's part of an effort ...

How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a ...

There is a pattern emerging from recent work in pure mathematics that deserves more attention from financial technologists ...

Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...

A Brief Overview Dyscalculia is a specific learning disability that affects a person’s ability to understand numbers and learn math concepts. Like dyslexia, which impacts reading skills, dyscalculia ...

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In this installment, we introduce category theory, a branch of mathematics with ideas that resonate with structuralism. We do not aim for rigorous mathematical proofs. Instead, we aim to understand ...

June the ant has to crawl along the surface of four different 3-D objects to reach her dinner. Your job is to help her find the shortest path along the surface of each object, so that she can chow ...

What could prime numbers possibly have to do with a black hole? Prime numbers look like the definition of “pure math,” but new theoretical work argues they may also be the right language for one of ...

Thank you to all who attended the NCTM 2026 Spring Conference in New Orleans! A special thanks to our program committee, volunteers, speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors who helped make this event a ...