Big advances in math can happen when mathematicians move ideas into areas where they seem like they shouldn’t belong. My latest story is about the mathematician June Huh, who came into the field late ...

Teachers can use these tools to promote discussions and help students move from concrete to abstract understanding of concepts.

Our mathematics relies on the idea that the difference between 1 and 2 is the same as the difference between 99 and 100. This idea feels intuitive to most of us, but is actually counter-intuitive to ...

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What happened when a gambler asked for help from a mathematician? The formal study of Probability. Infinite Series is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. For many people, memories of maths lessons at school are anything but pretty. Yet "beautiful" is a word that I and ...

Imagine walking into a math classroom. Everything is quiet, students are diligently writing and reading and thinking. You hear the rustle of paper, scratching pens, and the occasional student shifting ...

Physics Professor Jesse Berezovsky contends that until now, much of the thinking about math and music has been a top-down approach, applying mathematical ideas to existing musical compositions as a ...