California math educators this fall have been locked in a vigorous debate: Will the implementation of a new law help more community college STEM students by skipping prerequisites and placing them ...

One thing both sides of the math-wars debate should agree on is this: Educators can set high standards, but the higher standards only help students if the students have a base of knowledge from which ...

In science and mathematics, it has been a fairly common occurrence for two different people/teams to be working on the same problem, and invent the same solution. After all, both fields are concerned ...

Mathematician Manil Suri discusses why math is essential to preserving civil society. Mathematician Manil Suri discusses why math is essential to preserving civil society. The Open Mind is available ...