There's a part of the brain that enables us to perceive magnitude -- we can compare loudness when hearing different tones or compare the number of dots in a group at a glance. Neuroscientists have ...

When elementary students experience math through multiple modes, they begin to see it as a language of design, rhythm, and ...

Taking lessons outside can help elementary students feel more connected to and excited about the content they’re learning.

We are fond of saying things are symmetric, but what does that really mean? Intuitively we have a sense of symmetry as a kind of mirroring. Suppose we draw a vertical line through the middle of a ...

This lavishly illustrated book provides a hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the intriguing mathematics of symmetry. Instead of breaking up patterns into blocks--a sort of potato-stamp ...

On the road to algebra, children must learn a weird idea: that numbers can be smaller than zero (negative) and can be mixed with numbers greater than zero (positive) in an equation. Now researchers at ...

For more than 50 years, mathematicians have been searching for a rigorous way to prove that an unusually strong symmetry is universal across physical systems at the mysterious juncture where they’re ...

Physicists have a lot in common with Ponce de León and U2’s Bono. After decades of searching, they aren’t getting any younger. And they still haven’t found what they’re looking for. In this case, the ...

Odyssey Math Tuition launches JC 2 H2 Math online tuition elearning course in Singapore, featuring a proprietary MOE-aligned ...

Some of our readers will recall the fiendishly difficult particle physics Sudoku puzzle I created for the June/July 2007 issue of symmetry. As Sudoku has taken off in popularity, a new area of ...