Many math teachers around the country have adjusted their expectations for students as a result of the Common Core State Standards. But a pilot professional-development program is going above and ...

MATLAB—a math modeling software—is used to design sophisticated structures. Engineering professor Panchapakesan Venkataram found an equally creative use for the popular software: designing intricate ...

The Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP) named Friends’ Central’s Upper School Math Modeling Team a National Finalist in the 19th Annual High School Mathematical Modeling Contest.

An exposition of a variety of mathematical models arising in the physical and biological sciences. Students' modeling projects are presented in class. Topics may include: GPS navigation, medical ...

All hurricane forecasting models aren't created equal, even when it comes to those used to model the same storm. The storm surge models used by the U.S. national government "tend to over-predict so ...

Mathematical models have become an integral part of cancer biology. They are useful tools for deriving a mechanistic understanding of dynamic processes in cancer. The somatic evolutionary process, ...