MadMath

A fascinating report on international education and job-ready skills from the Educational Testing Service. Particularly so, as it almost dir...

From testimony at Ohio State ( link ): Decreased state funding Administrative bloat Cost of athletics (Thanks to Jonathan Scott Mille...

You may have already seen this article on the work of Naomi S. Baron at American University: her studies show that for textbook-style readin...

One more time, as we've pointed out here before ( link ), in this case from Jonathan Wai of Duke University: " the rank order of co...

The ponderous instrument of synthesis, so effective in Newton's hands, has never since been grasped by anyone who could use it for such...

A quick observation: statements like "the average woman's height is 64 inches" are almost always misinterpreted. Here's th...

Let me again ask the question, " How Do You Know Something is a Proportion?". For the math practitioner this is one of those t...