By the time students start 4th grade in Jennifer Clark’s class, she hopes they have a solid grasp on their math facts. “Because we do so much multi-step problem solving, and we’re doing two ...

Mathematics, she learned, was the language that all the sciences are written in. “There’s something deeper out there than what’s in the textbooks,” she said. “It’s a really delightful world that we ...

In this excerpt from his new book, Our Mathematical Universe, M.I.T. professor Max Tegmark explores the possibility that math does not just describe the universe, but makes the universe ...

He was a math whiz born back in the 1200s who had nothing better to do than add sequential numbers together like this: 0 plus 1 is 1. 1 plus 1 is 2. 1 plus 2 is 3. 2 plus 3 is 5 and so on, ...