In 2004, the district adopted student-centered math textbooks, considered to be reform math. Advocates said students would develop better critical thinking skills through group discussions and ...

Walter Hunter, who teaches a remedial algebra class at Montgomery County Community College, brought scissors to class last month so his students could cut their textbooks in half. The five-pound ...

In math, he says, pi pops up in the most unexpected places. "Pi, with its infinite number of digits, is an introduction to the kinds of mathematics that we do, which often involve the study of ...

Today is Pi Day, but you should stop celebrating it and instead use tau as your circle constant. Tau Day — the true holiday — is celebrated on June 28th.

Pi shows up in many formulas in math and physics. Its value is often rendered as 3.14 — hence the celebration on the 14th day of the third month of the year — but that’s an approximation.

The proof that the Apéry constant is irrational remains one of the most bizarre events in the history of mathematics. Skip to main content. Scientific American.

As mentioned before, +C represents a constant in math. And today I plan on sharing my opinions about consistency and constants in life and college, which are strangely similar to my thoughts about +C.

The scores add to a worrisome body of evidence that academic performance in the United States is stagnant or slipping. Scores for fourth- and eighth-graders dropped in math in 2015, the first time ...

As a physics reporter and lover of mathematics, I won’t be celebrating Pi Day this year. That’s because pi is wrong. I don’t mean that the value is incorrect. Pi, known by the symbol π, is ...