How can we fix the leaky pipeline that results in the field of mathematics being dominated by men? How are women in math treated in their workplace environments? What barriers exist that make it ...
American students remain stumped by math. The 2019 scores for the National Assessment of Educational Progress test were published last month, showing that performance for fourth- and eighth-graders ...
Professor of Mathematics Assaf Naor has been awarded the 2019 Ostrowski Prize in Higher Mathematics in recognition of his pioneering achievements at the interface of the geometry of Banach spaces, the ...
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A challenging math problem can make some students break into a cold sweat and others excited to wrap their brains around a puzzle. A wealth of research suggests that a student’s academic ...
“I like to build stuff,” said Tin-Yau Tam, who goes by T.Y. and joined the University on July 1, 2018. “I built my own house in Auburn, Alabama. I think that’s my nature.” Before Tam came to the ...
A second-grade student works on a math problem on the board at an elementary school in California.Brianna Soukup—Portland Press Herald/Getty Images No state saw improvements in students’ math or ...