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How Can We Tell Which Forecasts Are True?
...enthusiast. We are all familiar with innumeracy — the lack of a basic knowledge of mathematics. A significant proportion of the population is effectively mathematically illiterate and can easily be...
Science Evolves. Will Science Education?
...New Math, Unlike the Old Math,” about new math and science standards working their way into America’s schools, and writing about Channa Comer, one of four extraordinary teachers profiled in...
Pencils Down: Soni Midha of East Side Community High School
In school or in life, Soni Midha wants her math students to be able to prove why something is correct. Max Cantor and Lisa Iaboni for Quanta Magazine...
The Art of Teaching Math and Science
...when it comes to math and science literacy. No test is perfect, but according to the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment, 15-year-old Americans ranked 27th in math and 20th...
Pencils Down: The Art of Teaching Math and Science
...this linchpin of our education system, Quanta Magazine followed four master science and math teachers into their classrooms. Wilson Hester, Max Cantor, Rachel Globe and Lisa Iaboni for Quanta Magazine...
All Is Not Fair in Cake-Cutting and Math
...they want to strive for — and that’s something mathematics can’t decide for them. When children divide an inheritance, should the Chagall painting go to the child who’s an art...
How to Cut Cake Fairly and Finally Eat It Too
...related Abstractions post: All Is Not Fair in Cake-Cutting and Math Over the past 50 years, many mathematicians and computer scientists, including Procaccia, had convinced themselves that there was probably...
Meet the New Math, Unlike the Old Math
...on what counts in each discipline, instruction in science and math is remarkably resistant to change. That said, we’re riding the next big wave in K-12 science and math education...
Using Mathematics to Repair a Masterpiece
...mathematical problems that have already led us far beyond a simple application of off-the-shelf tools. We have not yet had to build new mathematical theory, but I expect it is...