The good news is that the number of American teens who excel in math is increasing. The bad news is that the growing ecosystem of high school math enthusiasts lacks students of color. The largely ...

A detail of the Mandelbrot set, a fractal named after Benoit Mandelbrot, the French mathematician who investigated it in the 1970s. If you were to zoom in at any point on the intricate, wiggly line, ...

Racial and gender stereotypes may color teachers’ perceptions of students’ math abilities, even when they rate students’ performance equally. A new study in the journal Educational Researcher, led by ...

A math coloring page turns ordinary practice into something visual and creative. Kids solve problems, match numbers, and watch patterns appear as they color, making math feel more like art than ...

Color is everywhere. From the color of our skin to the shade of our clothing and tint of our walls, colors are all around us. The Secret Lives of Colors written by Kassia St. Clair tells the story of ...

What does it take to get students from low-income families, English-language learners, black students, and Hispanic students enrolled—and thriving—in advanced-math courses? For the Long Beach Unified ...

A key algorithm that quietly empowers and simplifies our electronics is the Fourier transform, which turns the graph of a signal varying in time into a graph that describes it in terms of its ...