A 72 percent reduction in federal funding is devastating to math research. The American Mathematical Society is offering $1 million in backstop grants—but it’s likely not enough.

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A Venn diagram is an illustration that uses overlapping circles to show commonalities and differences between things or groups of things.

In the 6th century BCE, the Greek alphabet used 24 letters. To make numbers, the Greeks added three more symbols ( accounts differ as to whether these were resurrected older letters or newly designed ...

A zero-sum game is a situation in game theory where the only way to win is at someone else's expense. Here's how zero-sum and positive-sum games apply in finance.

What we as scientists and educators assess has a tremendous impact on whom we authorize to participate in science careers. Unfortunately, in critical gateway chemistry courses, assessments commonly ...

Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an ...

Enrolling students in high school math courses is a high-stakes endeavor with an outsize effect on students’ college opportunities and even on their entire careers. The pressure to reach Calculus by a ...