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 ...

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 ...

The ACT math test consists of 60 multiple-choice questions that must be completed in 60 minutes. A portion of those questions involves modeling, which is the process of expressing real-life phenomena ...

MATLAB—a math modeling software—is used to design sophisticated structures. Engineering professor Panchapakesan Venkataram found an equally creative use for the popular software: designing intricate ...

From fireworks to woodburning to modeling fire behavior, Jenna Sjunneson McDanold’s love of fire has fueled her growth as an artist and a mathematician. As part of her studies as mathematical modeling ...

Several University of Colorado Boulder undergraduates showed off their communication, programming and mathematical skills earlier this year in the 37th annual Math Contest in Modeling that featured 26 ...

Five Richard Montgomery High School students have advanced to the finals in an international mathematics modeling competition. (Courtesy Jerry Shen) A group of high school students in Rockville, ...

A group of Pine View School students recently advanced to the finals of the prestigious MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge, a competition for $100,000 in scholarships involving more than 2,700 11th and ...

Applied Math Modeling launched the fourth release of its predictive-modeling tool for data center cooling systems CoolSim 4. The tool uses computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling method to predict ...

Inspiring students to pursue math is no easy task. To many, the thought of studying higher levels of math is intimidating and undesirable. This is one of the mindsets that my generation grew up with.