BERKELEY, Calif. – Whether she's assigning a problem, or helping students work out the answer, professor Zvezdelina Stankova is passionate about one thing: math. "For me, mathematics is very, very ...

I had never heard the term, “math circle,” until a few weeks ago when I stumbled across an article in The Atlantic about the growing number of American kids excelling in the highest levels of math. It ...

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FARMINGTON — In a classroom at Navajo Preparatory School today, Henry Fowler, a co-director for the Navajo Nation Math Circles Project, was breaking down a mathematics equation with the help of 16 ...

Evan O’Dorney leaps from his seat and snatches the chalk from his teacher’s hand. “I think it goes like this,” the eighth-grader exclaims. He has come up with a formula for the number of ways to ...

The term "computer" used to be applied to humans that performed calculations by hand. It's still important for today's kids to still know how to, say, multiply without using their calculators (or ...

Michelle Manes has taught math in almost every setting. She taught public high school students, deaf elementary school students, and middle school girls at a single-sex school. But eventually, she ...

In a new film, George Paul Csicsery shares Navajo children’s delight in summer math camp. Sound surprising? It is! Every summer Navajo children get up early and come from miles to a summer program at ...

Fargo - Trevor McGuire wants to welcome high school math lovers into his inner circle. His Monday night math circle. The North Dakota State University assistant professor of mathematics started the ...

Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer’s U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad—the first for an American team in more than two ...

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