EAGLE COUNTY – “What good will this do me?” asks the 10th grader picking at an algebra problem.It’s a pointed, timeless question that doesn’t always have a quick answer. When parents and teachers are ...
Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...
Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...
Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero, ...
IN this book the student is carried rapidly through a course of arithmetic, algebra, geometry and trigonometry to some of the simpler problems of mensuration and dynamics. The idea is to bring the ...