Chris Rogers, an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, was recently awarded a grant by the Division of Mathematical Sciences in the National Science Foundation. The work ...

Earlier this school year, my fourth-grade daughter came home with the following math problem to solve: “If you have a 241-gram bag of marshmallows, and the bag contains 40 marshmallows, approximately ...

Hatred of math is a near-universal part of childhood. Educators have attempted every possible method in the universe to make formulas and equations interesting. The closest someone ever got to making ...

What mathematical knowledge do elementary teachers use in teaching? About 10 years ago, Deborah Ball and her colleagues at Michigan State University carried out a research project to address this ...

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The building blocks of mathematical understanding start to form very early in life, as do the fundamentals of reading, but experts say that informal “math through play” approaches alone don’t add up ...

And I agree - somewhat - with tmatsci here: I don't believe an actual singularity exists at the center of a black hole. Firstly, on purely theoretical grounds, I don't believe any real infinities ...