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John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of every possible length. In 1969, the British mathematician John Conway devised a beguilingly simple ...

Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...

Mathematical patterns reveal profound truths about the universe and, surprisingly, about our inner lives as well. These five visual math concepts offer unique frameworks for understanding our behavior ...

A new dashboard shows K-8 national and state-level math and reading achievement trends pre- and post-pandemic.

The math of even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major ...

This is the second in a two-part series. Part one can be found here. The debate over what early math should look like and what should be included in the Common Core State Standards for math is one of ...

Parents and teachers know that reading to their children in preschool and kindergarten is important. But how can parents and teachers support young children’s mathematics knowledge? One often ...

High levels of total screen time in young Canadian children are associated with lower reading and math test scores in ...

"I was a landscape architect who turned to a life of crime," jokes Robert Cheetham, founder of Azavea, a software development and research firm based in Philadelphia. Fourteen years ago, he was one of ...