Laubenbacher intrigued the teachers by showing them a video clip of a human cell going after a bacterium, successfully chasing and eating the dangerous organism. “That’s an interesting pattern,” he ...

Helping kids learn patterns can develop math skills. Poughkeepsie Day School, CC BY-NC-SA Parents and teachers know that reading to their children in preschool and kindergarten is important. But how ...

This photograph does a pretty good job of "describing" ripples. But a mathematician could do it with greater precision and predictive power. Image credit: andressolo, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 "How is it ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

Students in this year’s Jaycees Barbados Math Fanatics were encouraged to recognise how maths is used in everyday life.