While snakes and ladders is purely a game of chance, there is a way to add some strategy, says mathematician Peter Rowlett ...

Grade inflation is the predictable result of how American universities now organize teaching, labor, and money.

Most people in the math education space agree that students need to be fluent with basic math facts. By the time kids are in ...

Animal survival depends on effective attack and defense strategies, yet how these behaviors arise remains unclear. Addressing ...

Take the pressure off of problem-solving with engaging thinking games that encourage students to work together to find ...

When Alfred University Associate Math Professor Amanda Lipnicki took up knitting as an undergraduate student, she didnt immediately recognize how mathematics and geometry underlay the patterns of ...

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and crops, archaeologists say.

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

A new study reveals the likely origin of a mysterious spider-like pattern first spotted on Jupiter's moon Europa in 1998. The finding could have implications for a NASA spacecraft en route to the ...

With the tech space still attempting to digest wide-ranging fears associated with the possible bubble in artificial intelligence, innovators in other fields have also struggled. In particular, ...

Social Security beneficiaries receive an annual COLA based on average inflation rates from the prior year. This cost is rising faster than the annual COLA, and it cuts directly into many retirees' ...