Dar es Salaam. In a country where many students fear mathematics and view it as one of the toughest school subjects, the Aga Khan University’s Institute for Educational Development, East Africa (IED, ...

Prime numbers are crucial for tech like RSA encryption, so understanding them from every angle is essential for maximum ...

The secret beauty in apples, stars and the center of you. In the world of taxicab geometry, even the Pythagorean theorem takes a back seat. Trying to fit it all in? There’s a trick to it, even in 24 ...

Teachers can get kids comfortable with math concepts by using numeracy-focused vocabulary in everyday classroom activities.

Mathematical patterns reveal profound truths about the universe and, surprisingly, about our inner lives as well. These five visual math concepts offer unique frameworks for understanding our ...

Pamela Weber Harris , a former high school math teacher contends in a new volume, Developing Mathematical Reasoning: Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms, that too many classrooms focus too much on ...

Their work revives long-standing mathematical curiosities but does so through a fresh window – additive combinatorics.

In math, tilings are often appreciated for their regular patterns. But mathematicians also find beauty in irregularity. It’s this kind of beauty that a retired print technician was seeking when he ...

Making that connection would require nothing less than establishing universal mathematical rules of elastic patterns. Tobasco has been working on this for years, studying equations that describe ...