The repeating chant rings out from Lincoln Park where Otis and Edison elementary school fifth graders compete in a toothpick bridge building contest. The students gathered at the park with their tiny, ...

MATH 1080, part of the Summer Bridge Program, is a course to assist students in refreshing their skills in mathematics from the fundamentals of arithmetic to college-level algebra, trigonometry, and ...

The prestige and high salaries associated with some STEM-related jobs may entice students to pursue degrees in STEM fields. Yet after they start the required college math courses, many realize there's ...

The proof Wiles finally came up with (helped by Richard Taylor) was something Fermat would never have dreamed up. It tackled the theorem indirectly, by means of an enormous bridge that mathematicians ...

I first heard about elite math competitions when I was homeschooling my kids (yes, I homeschooled my children for eight years). I read about the International Math Olympiad and MathCounts, and heard ...

In 2024, The Bridgeable Math Gap: Lessons Learned from Dyslexia introduced educators to dyscalculia, explored how to recognize early signs, highlighted the importance of timely intervention, and ...

Evanston, Ill. (May 29, 2008) – The gender gap in math perceived to exist between girls and boys has long been contested. New research published in the journal Science sheds clarity on the debate and ...

The full bridge would offer mathematicians the hope of illuminating vast swaths of mathematics by passing concepts back and forth across it. Many problems, including Fermat’s Last Theorem, seem ...