Having a positive mindset in math may do more than just help students feel more confident about their skills and more willing to keep trying when they fail; it may prime their brains to think better.

The concept of growth mindset—the belief that intelligence can be developed through effort—has gained considerable attention in K-12 education in recent years. To learn more about educators’ ...

The statistical physics of graphs and partition functions represents a vibrant intersection of graph theory, statistical mechanics and computational complexity. By summing over an ensemble of ...