Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a ...

In the Fall I'll be starting teaching again, after a semester away on sabbatical and then enjoying teaching relief during my first semester at Penn. I'll be teaching a course that I truly love, and ...

Our hydra is a rooted tree. The root (black, at the bottom) is the body, and the leaves (blue) are its heads. Just like Hercules, you are going to cut off its heads, one at a time. But, just like with ...

A mathematician is blowing plenty of minds on TikTok, thanks to her example of just how confusing high-level math is. But in a recent viral video, she explained just how, even for people who ...

When I tell someone I am a mathematician, one of the most curious common reactions is: “I really liked math class because everything was either right or wrong. There is no ambiguity or doubt.” I ...

A new study challenges the common practice in many classrooms of teaching mathematical concepts by using "real-world," concrete examples. Researchers found that college students who learned a ...

They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...