The Aspen School District will host a screening of the documentary “Counted Out” next week to encourage students to engage with math outside of the classroom. The documentary explores civil rights, ...

The caustic mathematician Roger Casals Gutiérrez saw on his kitchen wall in 2023. Caustics are a type of singularity, a mathematical phenomenon that occurs when an surface goes through a transition.

Prof. Steven Strogatz, mathematics, researches dynamical systems applied to physics, biology and social science, and also enjoys finding ways to make everyone love and appreciate the role of ...

Steven Strogatz, Winokur Distinguished Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Mathematics at Cornell University We asked Strogatz — a 2023 top award winner of the National Academies’ ...

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Have you ever called a doctor’s office or a company and had to punch in the answers to five questions before being put on hold? Have you then waited for several minutes to the accompaniment of ...

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Q. Some parents in our district dislike our math program. They call it "fuzzy" and want it gone. A teacher defended the program at a PTO meeting in a way that made sense to me, but the fight goes on.