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  • April 10, 2013 11:32 AM

    Who Needs Math?

    E. O. Wilson has an interesting brief essay (excerpted from a new book entitled Letters to a Young Scientist) on the role of mathematics and mathematical expertise in science. “Most of the stereotypical photographs of scientists studying rows of...

    By Larry Bartels

  • February 11, 2013 3:33 PM

    Math Is Hard

    Maybe students are learning the wrong math. Maybe the math is just too hard. So argues By Andrew Hacker in a recent opinion piece in the New York Times. As he writes the current standard mathematics course sequence in American...

    By Daniel Luzer

  • June 28, 2012 10:00 AM

    Too Much Math

    While Americans have some vague idea that its children aren’t very good at math, it turns out even scientists tend to avoid numbers if they can. According to an article by Elizabeth Gibney at Times Higher Education: [A] study, published...

    By Daniel Luzer

  • August 5, 2011 4:31 PM

    University of Phoenix Buys Math Program

    An institution that probably hopes to one day become the major deliverer of online math courses has just purchased a leading provider of online math courses. According to an article by Trip Gabriel in the New York Times: The Apollo...

    By Daniel Luzer

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