I feel for my students when I hand them their first essay assignment. Many are mathematicians, students and teachers who chose to study mathematics partly to avoid writing. But in my mathematics ...

Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means tabletop games ...

European Journal of Psychology of Education, Vol. 20, No. 4 (December 2005), pp. 355-367 (13 pages) This article relates to an empirical study based on the use of mathematical symbolism in problem ...

Deputy Director of the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences and Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of the ...

David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike other creative processes, like making music, which can be heard, ...