The University's location in "Silicon Valley," home to campuses of IBM, Apple, Intel, Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, Hewlett Packard, Netscape, 3Com, Cisco ...

Growth and change in technology have brought a boom in the availability of data and the need for people to shape technologies. Growing areas like machine learning require expertise in programming, ...

Actuarial Science student Olivia Suarez is turning her love of numbers into a way to help people while strengthening the ...

Finals were over and summer vacation has started. An app that ranked as top 1 on the US educational app ranking chart, has caught the eyes of many students during the final season. The e-learning app ...

What's the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables, or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level? Educators have long debated the merits of these ...

When you’re solving a challenging math problem, you know your brain is working hard. But what, exactly, is going on in there? Despite decades of research into math teaching and learning, there is ...

Protecting eight hours of nightly sleep is crucial for academic success, especially in math and science, a study reveals. This optimal sleep duration ...

A typical 8th grade math textbook includes just a handful of real-world problems for students to solve, finds a new international study. And that’s not enough, according to William Schmidt, ...

Twenty years ago, cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Spelke took a strong position in an ongoing public debate. "There are no differences in overall intrinsic aptitude for science and mathematics among ...