The students huddled around their tables, scribbling and erasing their notes, nodding and shaking their heads and rearranging the blocks in front of them. “There has to be a hole in the middle.” “We ...

The students huddled around their tables, scribbling and erasing their notes, nodding and shaking their heads and rearranging the blocks in front of them. “There has to be a hole in the middle.” “We ...

Trey Smith plans to launch the Philadelphia Engineering/Math Challenge in November and already has secured support from Drexel and the Philadelphia Math + Science Coalition. He’ll use the money for ...

What is clear to us is that our students are college students. They are here because they want a higher education. We have ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The ninth- and 10th-grade Math and Engineering team from Weatherly Area won first place at ...

Surrounded by striking neo-Gothic buildings and lush green lawns, students at the High School for Math, Science and Engineering get more than a taste of college life. They use the same gym and ...

Princeton Professor Andrew Houck’s calculus students had just finished grappling with a set of equations on the forces of tension and gravity when he pulled a large pendulum back to his shoulder and ...

Narrow math tests inevitably drive down real standards because accountability pressures principals and teachers to teach to the test. Conversely, well-engineered tests of the math we actually want ...

As a rookie engineer in my first job, my boss presented me with a pile of notebooks that belonged to a recently retired senior engineer. He asked me to distill the most common calculations in them ...