For example, airlines frequently hire math majors, particularly those with a background in economics, to determine the amount of fuel required to fly their routes and project passenger demand and ...

Terence Tao, a mathematics professor at UCLA, is a real-life superintelligence. The “Mozart of Math,” as he is sometimes called, is widely considered the world’s greatest living mathematician.

While teaching through real-world examples allows students to tackle messy problems that feel relevant, which helps build their desire to learn math, it’s still vital for teachers to have training ...

By double-dosing students with math concepts in seventh grade — couched in an approach that stresses projects with real-world applications over worksheets — the thinking is they will be better ...

Woodbury’s Math and Science Academy adding elementary school, building new high school The $55 million project is the result of a school in high demand, according to Executive Director Kate Hinton ...

It’s no easy task, but she lays out several strategies educators can use to ensure the concepts stick. The approach pays off in increased student confidence, ability to apply math in the real world ...

Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they contain fractals, following relatively simple mathematical rules also found in branching patterns in nature.

Harvard might be America’s most elite university — but now it’s offering remedial math classes. The school’s math department is providing a new scaled-back math class for freshmen who are ...