President Obama earlier this year announced a new initiative, “Computer Science for All,” to empower a generation of American students with the computing skills they need to thrive in a digital ...

Imagine it’s a student’s first day of ninth grade in the San Francisco Unified School District in 2012. Let’s call her Veronica. On her schedule is a math class full of other ninth graders repeating ...

Last week I wrote about the birthday of the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace. Before she came up with the world’s first computer program (conceptually, at least), Lovelace was an ...

There is a general sense that programming is related to math and that people who are successful in math are often successful at programming. For math teachers, a natural question arises: “What is the ...

QUT's YuMi Deadly Centre has been selected to deliver the mathematics element of a new project to direct Indigenous students toward a STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) career.

It's true that transformation matrices are used a lot in 3D graphics, but to understand what you want to do (as opposed to how to get it done), you want to understand "descriptive geometry". IME ...

The Nevada Math & Technology Program began in 1998 under Program Director Lynda Wiest, a University of Nevada, Reno professor who continues to direct the program. The program's purpose is to increase ...

How is math used in video game designing and programming? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by ...

Last year, I started writing about my experiences taking courses on machine learning and artificial intelligence. One of the big, unexpected problems I ran into was calculus and linear algebra. I've ...