Chris Rogers, an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, was recently awarded a grant by the Division of Mathematical Sciences in the National Science Foundation. The work ...

THERE are prodigies — children who have an inexplicable, innate ability to perform virtuoso mental, artistic or physical feats — but for the vast majority of human beings, acquiring skills is a more ...

Hatred of math is a near-universal part of childhood. Educators have attempted every possible method in the universe to make formulas and equations interesting. The closest someone ever got to making ...

The building blocks of mathematical understanding start to form very early in life, as do the fundamentals of reading, but experts say that informal “math through play” approaches alone don’t add up ...

School is officially back in session and the province, school boards and teachers are talking about how to teach math to students. Last Friday, the province announced it has released a new guide for ...

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Programmers normally want to minimize the time their code takes to execute. But in 1962, the Hungarian mathematician Tibor Radó posed the opposite problem. He asked: How long can a simple computer ...

The first time I ever visited Tech’s Math Emporium, I thought it was a magical land of Mac computers and caffeinated students. But then I had to take freshman math. As an English major, after spending ...

The fruit fly’s eye consists of a highly patterned hexagonal lattice of 800 clusters of photoreceptor cells. Some of the secrets as to how this pattern formed remained a mystery until 2022. That’s ...