Thousands of mathematics teachers and millions of students have used the curricular materials that Zalman Usiskin and his associates wrote and developed during his career as UChicago professor and director of the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project.
Wide-ranging impact has been a hallmark of the University of Chicago Mathematics Project and its most widely used product, Everyday Mathematics. Each year approximately 4.3 million students in 220,000 U.S. classrooms learn with Everyday Mathematics, a comprehensive pre-K through grade 6 mathematics program.
A new study from Indiana University suggests that gender stereotypes about women's ability in mathematics negatively impact their performance. And in a significant twist, both men and women wrongly believe those stereotypes will not undermine women’s math performance -- but instead motivate them to perform better.
A team of researchers, led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor Yuri Lvov, has found an elegant explanation for the long-standing Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) problem, first proposed in 1953, investigated with one of the world’s first digital computers, and now considered the foundation of experimental mathematics.
On Saturday (at 9:26:53 to be exact), math lovers and others around the world will celebrate Pi. Experts at the National Institutes of Health share a few reasons why math is important to biomedical research.
Students attending voluntary, school district-led summer learning programs entered school in the fall with stronger mathematics skills than their peers who did not attend the programs, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
Founded in 1915, the Mathematical Association of America will celebrate its 100th birthday with activities throughout the coming year. The association is now the largest professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level.
Thinking you’re good at math and actually being good at it are not the same thing, new research has found. About one in five people who say they are bad at math in fact score in the top half of those taking an objective math test. But one-third of people who say they are good at math actually score in the bottom half.
The September 2014 College Mathematics Journal serves up a selection of papers on the Rubik’s cube.
Wake Forest University faculty finds technology to help blind student see math clearly and pursue degree.
Mathematics popularizer Martin Gardner would have turned 100 this month, and video footage newly released by the MAA affords fans the rare opportunity to see the man in action.
A Wellesley College mathematics professor says that the key to reversing the country’s Math Crisis lies in tapping into the everyday examples of math hidden in the world around us and changing the way we instruct math in America's classrooms.
The work of Anthony Cheung and others shows the power of mathematics to open new possibilities in music. Modern experiments with computer music are just the most recent example.
Nearly 40 percent of women who earn engineering degrees quit the profession or never enter the field, and for those who leave, poor workplace climates and mistreatment by managers and co-workers are common reasons, according to research presented at the American Psychological Association’s 122nd Annual Convention.
Thirteen teams participated in the first University of Chicago Data Visualization Challenge, a competition to create insightful, novel and well-designed visual representations of raw social science data.
The six high school students who represented the United States at the 55th International Mathematical Olympiad took second place overall and brought home five gold medals and one silver.
A relic from long before the age of supercomputers, the 169-year-old math strategy called the Jacobi iterative method is widely dismissed today as too slow to be useful. But thanks to a curious, numbers-savvy Johns Hopkins engineering student and his professor, it may soon get a new lease on life.
The eye is an exquisitely sensitive system with many aspects that remain somewhat of a mystery—both in the laboratory and in the clinic. A U.S.-based team of mathematicians and optometrists is working to change this by gaining a better understanding of the inner workings of tear film distribution over the eye’s surface. This, in turn, may lead to better treatments or a cure for the tear film disease known as “dry eye.”
A different kind of jet-lag mobile app released today by University of Michigan mathematicians reveals previously unknown shortcuts that can help travelers snap their internal clocks to new time zones as efficiently as possible.
A new study of math anxiety shows how some people may be at greater risk to fear math not only because of negative experiences, but also because of genetic risks related to both general anxiety and math skills.
In honor of National Pi Day, a Texas Tech alumnus has invented a Pi shaped pie pan and put it into mass production for math enthusiasts with a sweet tooth.
Children who use their hands to gesture during a math lesson gain a deep understanding of the problems they are taught, according to new research from University of Chicago’s Department of Psychology.
The March issue of The College Mathematics Journal includes the work of numerous student authors: three high schoolers, six undergraduates, and two graduate students.
Writing in the March issue of the American Mathematical Monthly, David H. Bailey and Jonathan Borwein recap the history of pi and describe recent research on whether the venerable constant is normal.
Join Dr. Robbert Dijkgraaf at the March 5 Perimeter Institute Public Lecture to explore how ideas from quantum physics are putting modern mathematical ideas in a natural context.
Whether it’s season tickets to Green Bay Packers’ games or silver place settings, divorce and inheritance have bred protracted disputes over the assignment of belongings. But, now, a trio of researchers has found a method for resolving such conflicts in an envy-free way.
Ithaca College mathematician Kelly Delp’s explication of the mathematical ideas behind the collaboration between topologist William Thurston and fashion designer Dai Fujiwara, first published in the Mathematical Association of America’s Math Horizons, is included in The Best Writing on Mathematics: 2013.
The Mathematical Association of America’s Euler Book Prize recognized Steven Strogatz’s The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math from One to Infinity for its positive impact on the public perception of mathematics.
Legendary University of Chicago Mathematics Professor Paul J. Sally, Jr., who was known for his love of mathematics at all educational levels, died Dec. 30 at age 80.
Mathematicians around the world have decided to launch an international project, Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE), to demonstrate how their field of expertise contributes directly to our well being.
UT Dallas computer scientists are using a famous mathematician's theory to make 3-D images that are more accurate approximations of the shapes of the original objects.
A famous math problem that has vexed mathematicians for decades has met an elegant solution by Cornell University researchers. Graduate student Yash Lodha, working with Justin Moore, professor of mathematics, has described a geometric solution for the von Neumann-Day problem, first described by mathematician John von Neumann in 1929.
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