What do earthquakes, wealthy Italian families and your circulatory system have in common? Scientists use fractals, self-similarity and power laws to translate from local to global scales.

They enable large-scale collaboration in mathematics. That’s a very recent advent. Math can be very fragile: If one step in a proof is wrong, the whole argument can collapse.

The average math and science lesson is "far from the ideal," a new study concludes.

Here, Tyler Kaulfers and Anthony Caldiero display their scale drawing for the class.   Students in Miss Faro’s mathematics classes at the Carl H. Kumpf School in Clark are learning ...

The Educational and Career Interest scale, a self-report instrument measuring high school students' educational and career interest in STEM, was developed and validated in two studies conducted during ...