Last December, several members of a national organization for math education leaders came together to issue a warning. A growing movement in the field, they claimed, was calling on schools to adopt an ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

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In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

What does import java.util Scanner mean? The java.util.Scanner class is one of the first components that new Java developers encounter. To use it in your code, you should import it, although another ...

Abstract: This study aims to assess the pedagogical effectiveness of mathematical visualization tools, particularly GeoGebra software, in promoting students' conceptual understanding and mastery of ...

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Aled version 2 was previously a project on SourceForge (ca.2004-2012). This is version 3. The manual is AledManual.docx (also accessible as AledManual.pdf); it describes all the features with many ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike ...

Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson, who surprised the math world when they produced innovative solutions to a 2,000-year-old puzzle, wowed the math world again when they presented several new ways of ...