In the early 1970s, astronauts drove a lunar rover — a dune buggy, of sorts — bouncing around on the moon on short treks. It holds an interest for Stephen Montgomery-Smith, a math professor at the ...

University of Missouri professors are using a $1.25 million National Institutes of Health grant to develop resources to help middle school teachers combine literacy, science and math for their ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Whenever Corey Webel introduces himself to someone as a math educator, he inevitably receives a passionate story or two about an experience — usually negative — someone had with a ...

It was an impressive display of brainpower put forth by some of the top young math minds in South Florida. The 24th annual Mu Alpha Theta Mathematics Regionals Competition attracted over 700 students ...

Corey Webel hopes he won't hear future generations of adults utter the words: "Don't make me do math." Webel directs the elementary math specialist program at the University of Missouri, starting its ...

New math teachers in urban schools sometimes leave their jobs after only a couple of years. They're prepared to teach math, but not for the challenges that come with teaching in city districts.

It is the perfect movie mystery plot. A problem unsolved for decades. A hero drawn into the search for a solution many think does not exist. The hero gives up, only to be drawn back in. After years of ...