We hear all the time about project-based learning. But how does it really work? Of all the tools humans have ever created to help describe and understand our world, few are more useful than ...

Even though our teenage children may not show it the proper appreciation (yet), math is often referred to as the “universal language.” And it is, even in EDA. Whenever I’m asked what the heck I do in ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council (NRC), whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

The purpose of this report is to help those responsible for curriculum decisions in school districts to design coherent mathematics and science curriculum programs. Coherence, as it is used in this ...

Ilana Horn, author of Motivated: Designing Math Classrooms Where Students Want to Join In, agreed to answer a few questions about her book. Ilana Seidel Horn is Professor of Mathematics Education at ...

In an effort to make math appear exciting, London‘s Science Museum has tapped Zaha Hadid to design its new mathematics gallery. According to the museum, the new multi-million dollar, Hadid-ian space ...

Rochester Institute of Technology professor David Farnsworth is a mathematician and a statistician by trade, and a "beader" by design. The Brighton resident has taught at RIT for 31 years and is as ...

You might think that your mouse pointer, and the rest of your computer’s user interface for that matter, was designed with a bucket load of human intuition and large dollop of design savvy. You’d be ...

There is a well-known adage that the design process in most cases consumes just 10% of project funds, but decisions made during that time determine 85% of all subsequent costs. For many manufacturers, ...

Richard Braatz, the Edwin R. Gilliland Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT, applies mathematics to streamline the development of pharmaceuticals. Trained as an applied mathematician, Braatz is ...