There is a general sense that programming is related to math and that people who are successful in math are often successful at programming. For math teachers, a natural question arises: “What is the ...

Computer scientists are mathematicians? With AI threatening both programming and mathematics, we need to ask what is math and what, if anything, does it have to do with programming. We need to teach ...

Last week I wrote about the birthday of the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace. Before she came up with the world’s first computer program (conceptually, at least), Lovelace was an ...

A child who has mastered the 'for loop' in programming stumbles over 'sigma (Σ) problems' in math. Even though both involve ...

Sign up for EdSource’s free daily newsletter to stay ahead of what’s changing in California education. Imagine it’s a student’s first day of ninth grade in ...

A game of chess requires its players to think several moves ahead, a skill that computer programs have mastered over the years. Back in 1996, an IBM supercomputer famously beat the then world chess ...

The death of mathematician George Dantzig is a scientific watershed. Dantzig developed "linear programming" and the simplex method, used to solve complex efficiency problems for large organizations.