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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This post was updated to clarify benefits of the program to Oakland Unified students. A growing number of students in Oakland Unified are learning math by playing a computer game that asks students to ...

In order to fulfill their degree requirements, Applied Mathematics majors are required to take 24 credits in engineering or approved courses with significant mathematical content in A&S or Business ...

Students placing into calculus and precalculus have the opportunity to take part in the Math Advance program. Math Advance is a free 3-week online program offered in August to help a small group of ...

Programming computers used to be harder. Don’t get us wrong — today, people tend to solve harder problems with computers, but the fundamental act of programming is easier. We have high-level languages ...