Would students take a stronger interest in math if they knew that an ancient African bone (from 20,000 B.C.) might be one of the world’s oldest known counting tools? Or that the work of Muslim ...

The Axiom of Choice became one of the most feared and contested ideas in mathematics. It created elegant theorems and ...

While American children once learned to add by reading a poster of animals and birds, they do it now by playing games on computers. Each step in between—whether it be a box of blocks or exercises ...

Ubiratan D’Ambrósio, an authority on the fields of ethnomathematics, math education and the history of mathematics, offers two talks at Bates College on Thursday, Sept. 18. At 4:30 p.m., D’Ambrosio ...

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The narrow paths between the book-crammed shelves at the Department of the History of Mathematics in Wilbour Hall might induce claustrophobia. And the stacks of yellowing, oversized photocopies are ...

National Mathematics Day 2023: From history to date, here's all that you need to know about the special day. National Mathematics Day 2023: Mathematics and calculations are an integral part of our ...

India celebrates National Mathematics Day on December 22 every year. The day commemorates the birth anniversary of great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Ramanujan made significant ...