Math teacher Emma Chiappetta uses a three-round exercise to help students not only recognize their errors, but also generate ...
Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...
All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...