State school board’s decision to change how math is taught is just part of the formula for improved student outcomes.

Pi is part of Egyptian mythology Egyptians believed that the pyramids of Giza were like math marvels, built on the principles of pi. The fun fact about this pi connection? Well, imagine this: The ...

Abel Prize Goes to Pioneer Whose “Math Toolbox” Can Be Used to Describe the Natural World A magnitude 7.7 earthquake in ...

From undergraduate study to graduate, postdoctoral and faculty research, women within the Mellon College of Science’s Department of Mathematical Sciences are among those continuing the tradition of ...

Researchers from Penn’s Behavior Change for Good Initiative, along with their collaborators, carried out am megastudy to ...

Professors Leda Cosmides, Adina Roskies and Rachel Segalman are elected fellows of the American Association for the ...

Now, more than 122 years after it was first proposed, Kamata and two other mathematicians have finally proved that a solution ...

Peter Badge / Typos1 / The Abel Prize. This year, the Abel Prize — the field’s highest honor — has been awarded to Masaki ...

Scientists investigated whether email interventions informed by behavioral science could help teachers help students learn math.

Nigerian astrophysicist Olamilekan Ogunrinde, reacting to Harvard's Dr. Willie Soon, says mathematics falls short in proving ...