Teaching writing and mathematics in the same course leaves Ruth Starkman considering the way humanities and mathematics students approach problems. Everything would have been perfectly ordinary that ...

Mathematics is one of the most widely taught school subjects and improving performance in it is the goal of multiple nationwide efforts in various countries 1,2,3. The significance of mathematics ...

Number theorist Andrew Granville on what mathematics really is — and why objectivity is never quite within reach. In 2012, the mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki claimed he had solved the abc conjecture ...

It’s natural to think that mathematics is primarily about numbers. In school, we first learn how to recite numbers and then spend considerable time writing them down and manipulating them on paper. Of ...

What are the foundational abilities that young children must develop at the beginning of school for their future academic success? Little is known about how emotion knowledge, social behaviour, and ...