Ms. Knarr will guide students in looking and making numerical patterns. In this lesson, Ms. Knarr will guide students in looking and making numerical patterns. / Julia Knarr, The Soulard School / ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Many years ago, a friend showed me this bit of mathematical trivia that thrilled us both no end: And then there’s the one I believed, for a while, was my own totally innovative discovery (it wasn’t).

Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that’s covered with tiny squares? It’s the perfect illustration of what mathematicians call a “periodic tiling of space”, with shapes covering an ...

It’s around fourth grade that many youngsters become discouraged by math and begin to think of it as a subject they’re just not good at. Be aware of this and try to prevent your child from developing ...

Here’s a simple number game to play on a rainy day, or while sheltering in place. You and I take turns crossing out numbers from the list {1, 2, 3, …, 9}. The winner is the last person to cross out a ...

Searching for mathematical patterns and assist students in creating their own. In this lesson, Ms. Knarr leads the search for mathematical patterns and assists the students of Teaching in Room 9 in ...