A new set of critical skills has emerged as the currency for success: creativity, original thought, and imagination. These are the only functions that can't be outsourced. In today's ultra-competitive, incredibly complex environment, creative problem-solving trumps rote memorization.READ»
You may not know what fractals are, mathematically speaking, but you know what they look like: tangled, crenelated forms bending and burbling in on themselves into infinity in a geometric, yet weirdly organic way. Generating fractal ...READ»
More than 100 companies are joining forces--from Facebook to Microsoft, DreamWorks to Google--to increase student literacy in science, technology, engineering, and math, which will account for some 8 million jobs by 2018. READ»
Number nerds, rejoice! Pi -- that magical, mystical number
representing the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter --
gets the attention it deserves today (ahem, 3.14). The world's most widely known mathematical ...READ»
(Guest blogged by Daniel Castro)
A new study published last Friday in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society titled “Cross-Cultural Analysis of Students with Exceptional Talent in Mathematical Problem Solving” is ...READ»
