The three-year project, known as “Immersion” and funded by a $1.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, is focused on mathematical modeling.

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 ...

Then Darpa turns around, and sponsors a new project to "develop a mathematical theory to build a functional model of the brain." It's one of 23 "mathematical challenges" issued today by the agency.

Recent research has convincingly documented elementary school children's tendency to neglect real-world knowledge and realistic considerations during mathematical modeling of word problems in school ...