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Everyone Loves Exploring - Whether your ideal place to explore is a deep dark jungle, a long, sandy deserted beach or a marketplace in a distant, exotic land, we all have an idyllic place that we coul..

2: How Does Your Child's Mathematical Garden Grow? A Brief Overview of Methodology in the Math Class

For those of us who are old enough to remember classrooms with walls, the methods we used to learn math were teacher-centered and method-based. Those who came of age before cooperative learning becam..

3: Math And The Arts: Essential Partners

It's subtle, far-reaching, and coercive, and we start learning it as early as the first grade. It may not be well-supported by research, yet it defines many peoples' self-image, their college majors, ..

4: Chaos Theory: What Is It?

Flannel shirts. Dial-up connections. "The X-Files." Nirvana and NAFTA. Baggy pants and "Seinfeld." The Bridges Of Madison County and Rent. The phrases "At the end of the day," "Generation X," and "Thi..

5: How To Use Algebra To Plan Your Future

Algebra represents some peoples' fondest memories of high school - and for others, it goes down in personal history as the one activity that tuned them out on math forever. But algebra offers instant ..

6: Math Facts Neglected By Schools

Quick! What is 9 x 12? If you learned it like I did, without even thinking, the number 108 pops into your head. In fact, whenever you hear nine and twelve mentioned together, two numbers automatically..

7: How Numbers Helped Save One Venerable Magazine

Among publishers, advertisers, and other business folk, the idea that Americans hate numbers is almost proverbial. One publishing-industry dictum holds that each equation an author puts in a book's ma..

8: How Math Makes Art Possible

A popular stereotype holds that some students are "math people" and some students, "humanities people." "Humanities people" excel in such subjects as English, visual art, history, drama, and social st..

9: Math Education: A Challenge And A Joy

Don't worry about your difficulties with math, Albert Einstein is said to have told a schoolgirl who wrote to him to lament her lack of success in the subject - "Mine," he wrote, "are still greater." ..

10: Zero: Sometimes Nothing Is Something

What's in a number? In the case of the number zero, quite a bit. The story of this humblest of numbers - after all, it stands for nothing - is so interesting that in recent years several journalists h..

11: Mathematics: A Beautiful Evolution

Most of the mathematical concepts we encounter every day - numbers, addition, subtraction - seem so basic, so hard to avoid in discussing reality on even the most basic level, that it's hard to imagin..

12: Learn About Effective Tutoring

A tutor is someone who helps individuals or small groups with instruction. A tutor helps a student improve their personal learning strategies so they can become better learners and be empowered in th..

13: Eta Bita Pi: One Of The World's Most Interesting Numbers

Circles are odd things. We encounter them all the time in nature - in fact we couldn't exist without them, the earth and all its heavenly neighbors (including the sun) being spherical - and yet mathe..

14: How To Rationalize Your Cooking: Using Laws Of Proportion In The Kitchen

The word "rational" has all kinds of connotations - good and bad - in today's culture. Be rational, we say to people who seem unable to see reason. Or, conversely, we tell people all too skilled at us..

15: From Algebra To Art: Math's Many Applications

It's a question every math teacher hears. Most dread it. Some - the most creative - practically look forward to it. But love it or hate it, no one teaches math for long before a student asks: "How is..

16: Beating Mr. Visa: How A Little Compound Interest Can Save A Lot Of Money

A question that vexes math students and teachers alike - "How does this apply to the rest of my life?" - turns out to have some surprising answers. Geometry in the living room? Statistics in your ledg..

17: The Math Hidden In Your Living Room

18: The Numbers: What Are They?

There's a question asked by any number of bored sophomores - and hard-working, frustrated adult learners as well - a question many math teachers dread, and that a few of the best welcome: "What does t..

19: Do You Know the History of Mathematics?

If you've taken a first-year college history course - or read through a basic history textbook - you may have noticed a small gap. It's only a thousand years or so.For a long time, the history of West..

20: Why Are Math Word Problems So Important?

Math word problems are frequently used to gauge students' ability to decipher pertinent information and also to assess students' ability to use their analytical and mathematics skills to solve problem..

21: Playing Games: What John Nash Was Actually Famous For

As Chariots Of Fire did for Eric Liddell and Braveheart did for William Wallace, the 2002 film A Beautiful Mind made mathematician John Forbes Nash a household name - without necessarily rendering his..

22: Math Help for the Adult Student Returning to School

More adults than ever before are returning to formal education. Some want to learn what they have failed to learn in high school. Some have made the momentous decision to earn a high school diploma o..

23: Math Help Can Be a Good Family Activity

We all use math in our everyday lives. Many of us consider ourselves to be "math phobic", "math deficient" or "mathematically challenged." Perhaps we communicate these ideas to our children or perhap..

24: China: A Dynasty Of Mathematical Genius

One of the most fascinating things about history is the amount of it that's been wiped out - on purpose. For example, in the ninth century CE, the greatest library in the world, the Library of Alexand..

25: Math Help: Why is My Child Struggling in Math?

Parents often ask why their children are doing poorly in math, particularly in grades 2-6. For young children, abstract quantities can be daunting, especially when taught in the context of skill dril..

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