Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Sep., 2006), pp. 89-112 (24 pages) Views of mathematical modeling in empirical, expository, and curricular references typically capture a ...

Every year, the Applied Mathematics Department supports undergraduate teams of students to compete in the international Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM). In 4 days (January 24-28 this year), a ...

Many math teachers around the country have adjusted their expectations for students as a result of the Common Core State Standards. But a pilot professional-development program is going above and ...

Researchers have developed a new approach that uses math to determine the best ways to group individuals to maximize learning. Their work has broad implications in education, as well as in economics, ...

Four Homestead High School students recently won an international math modeling competition — and $20,000 in scholarship money to go with it. Adam Garsha, Jacob Schmidman, Eric Wan and Ethan Wang took ...

Understanding the stability, motion, and re-centering of contact lenses on eyes is essential to improving lens performance and comfort. Hydrogel lenses deform to conform to the eye. When a lens is on ...