W hile experiential learning has gained attention in educational reforms, its application in Maths is limited. According to David Kolb, experiential learning involves four stages: concrete experience, ...

At the midpoint of Bloomington city council’s four-year term, enough roll call votes exist to analyze voting patterns. Using ...

Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number and double the other. After crossing out rows with ...

For those with an eye for interior design, decorating the Christmas tree is the highlight of the festive season. But in the hands of an overzealous decorator, your fir can quickly disappear behind a ...

A research team has developed a high-precision 3D analysis framework that reveals, for the first time, the quantitative rules ...

A financial “security” is nothing more than a claim on some stream of cash flows that investors expect to be delivered into ...

In the latest in our imagined history of inventions yet to come, Future Chronicles columnist Rowan Hooper reveals how by the ...

At first glance, shopping in Europe and the US feels roughly the same. But look again. Here are some of the things that stood ...

Gum makers have claimed, for decades, chewing is good for your mental health. They’re kind of on to something.

Explore some favorite visual stories of designers, developers and art directors from The Washington Post’s Design, Graphics ...

Chinese scientists have successfully developed an integrated green control strategy to combat canker disease affecting poplar trees in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. They have achieved a sustained disease ...

If you’re not sure how to wrap a present, there’s an easy hack you can try. The clever trick—wrap diagonally, not horizontally or vertically—is based in math. Basic geometric principles explain how it ...