There is a general sense that programming is related to math and that people who are successful in math are often successful at programming. For math teachers, a natural question arises: “What is the ...

Imagine it’s a student’s first day of ninth grade in the San Francisco Unified School District in 2012. Let’s call her Veronica. On her schedule is a math class full of other ninth graders repeating ...

Last week I wrote about the birthday of the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace. Before she came up with the world’s first computer program (conceptually, at least), Lovelace was an ...

When the FORTRAN programming language debuted in 1957, it transformed how scientists and engineers programmed computers.

Bootstrap started as a 10-week after-school program. It was created by Emmanuel Schanzer, a former computer programmer turned math teacher and now a Ph.D. student in the Harvard Graduate School of ...

This post was updated to clarify benefits of the program to Oakland Unified students. A growing number of students in Oakland Unified are learning math by playing a computer game that asks students to ...

Students in grades 4-7 throughout schools in Trumbull County have spent the first semester experiencing new skills and ...

In the summer of 1988, 15 seventh-grade students from across Chicago convened at the University of Chicago campus, forming the inaugural class of the Young Scholars Program, an exploratory mathematics ...

How is math used in video game designing and programming? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by ...

MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) has launched ST Math at nearly every elementary, middle and select high schools. It's a game-based program helping students make sense of math through ...