In 2014 Mura Yakerson, a college student at the time, decided to practice driving in a quiet area in the countryside near ...

Yakerson is not alone. Several renowned mathematicians gained invaluable experience despite the challenges of incarceration.

Math nerds and historians, it's time to get excited. Minds of Modern Mathematics, a new iPad app released Thursday by IBM, presents an interactive timeline of the history of mathematics and its ...

The display succeeds in giving people a sense of how mathematics has been taught in various eras of American history, according to one expert in math education and its history.

Like many of the cultures it studies, the Department of History of Mathematics has had innovative leaders, a golden era and, inevitably, a fall from glory. This year could witness the end of a ...

National Mathematics Day 2023: From history to date, here's all that you need to know about the special day.

Applied Mathematics is central to science and engineering education. As early as 1901 Engineering Mathematics was taught by faculty in the College of Engineering. Engineering Mathematics was organized ...

Results indicated that using history as a tool to teach mathematics had a significant positive effect on students' mathematics achievement, in an initial posttest and in two retention tests taken 4 ...