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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TL;DR: Right now, there’s a cultural push to untie the historical link between advanced math and programming that could partially deter engineers from entering the field. But those who have a strong ...

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 ...

MEDIA. WELCOME BACK. AS THE SCHOOL YEAR WRAPS UP FOR WINSTON-SALEM FORSYTH COUNTY SCHOOLS, THERE ARE ALREADY EFFORTS UNDERWAY TO SET UP STUDENTS FOR SUCCESS THIS FALL, OUR JACKIE PASCALE EXPLAINS THE ...