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 ...

Computer scientists are mathematicians? With AI threatening both programming and mathematics, we need to ask what is math and what, if anything, does it have to do with programming. We need to teach ...

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 ...

Sign up for EdSource’s free daily newsletter to stay ahead of what’s changing in California education. President Obama earlier this year announced a new ...

I want my child to be strong in math and science in the future.' 💡 'Do programming and robotics classes really make sense?' 🤔With the rapid evolution of AI technology and changes to the curriculum ...

A game of chess requires its players to think several moves ahead, a skill that computer programs have mastered over the years. Back in 1996, an IBM supercomputer famously beat the then world chess ...

The death of mathematician George Dantzig is a scientific watershed. Dantzig developed "linear programming" and the simplex method, used to solve complex efficiency problems for large organizations.