If you've ever been lost, you've experienced the frustrations of folding up a map. L. Mahadevan, a professor of applied mathematics at Harvard University, has studied wrinkles and folds, and joins ...

Australian National University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Recently, as a community ambassador for ANU Student Equity, I took to a local secondary school to talk maths with a ...

It’s easy to take maps for granted. After all, most of us have a pretty good map in our pockets at all times, ready to show us how to get anywhere on the globe. But to make a map useful, you have to ...

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) has released the Math Skills Map, latest in its series of 21st century skills maps for core academic subjects. It was developed in collaboration with the ...

ELIZABETH VAN HEUVELEN is a senior economist in the IMF’s Strategy, Policy, and Review Department. Opinions expressed in articles and other materials are those of the authors; they do not necessarily ...

Our genes play a significant role in how anxious we feel when faced with spatial and mathematical tasks, such as reading a map or solving a geometry problem, according to a new study. Our genes play a ...

An American mathematical model that has been used for more than 80 years to determine the hunting range of animals in the wild will now be used to map territories of street gangs. The way gangs break ...