There is a lot more to math than just equations on a chalkboard. It is a very useful set of tools for tackling problems in ...

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String figures are a tangible example of cultural artifacts that combine art, crafts, play, storytelling and mathematical reasoning. Such traditions shared across humanity may help in understanding ...

Eye-tracking allows studying aspects that cannot be seen, for example, the thinking processes of a student solving a mathematical problem. Researchers have integrated eye-tracking into education ...

There’s a reason fashion designers look to animal prints for inspiration. Creatures have evolved a dizzying array of patterns: stripes, spots, diamonds, chevrons, hexagons and even mazelike designs.

There are plenty of examples of high-profile musicians with a mathematical background, and a good few famous scientists who’ve moonlighted as composers or instrumentalists.

And the reason is more to do with math than flavor — the surface of Romanesco is a textbook example of a natural fractal. These organic patterns appear throughout nature.

A new catalog of the number and size of the cells in the human body revealed, among other things, that the number of lymphocytes (blue in this illustration) in blood was greatly underestimated.

For example, you might be told that math starts with counting, then goes to algebra, then calculus and so on. Subscribe to the Design newsletter. The latest innovations in design brought to you ...

No matter how much you zoom in, you continue to see the same pattern repeated over and over again. Fractals are not merely mathematical curiosities, but they are everywhere in nature. The branching ...

Examples of living plants with Fibonacci spirals. From left to right: spirals in leaves of a monkey puzzle trees, a pine cone and in the flower of a seaside daisy. Sandy Hetherington , Author provided ...