In an age when a smartphone or an AI voice assistant can provide the answer to nearly any math-related query, it’s fascinating to imagine using a hand-held calculator built from… Read More
There’s online teaching and then there’s cool YouTube-style teaching with a lightboard, neon-colored markers, a black backdrop and a Steve Jobs-worthy wardrobe on the instructor. Steve Brunton is doing the… Read More
— Math is one of those subjects that seems to be divisive among students as they grow up. Basically, you love it or you hate it. There aren’t many middle-of-the-road… Read More
What’s the best way to celebrate Pi Day? That’s the geeky holiday that takes place on 3/14 … in other words, today. For some, it’s a day for baking geeky… Read More
Pi Day plays off the fact that March 14 – 3/14 – is a numerical pun on math’s best-known irrational number: pi, or 3.14. But there’s nothing irrational about punning pi, the… Read More
At first glance, Timea Tihanyi and Jayadev Athreya make strange bedfellows. Tihanyi is an interdisciplinary visual artist who teaches in the University of Washington’s School of Art and has spent more than… Read More
The head of security operations at Facebook, Regina Wallace-Jones, is in charge of protecting 1.6 billion people. She’s an engineer who does math and science every day, but she doesn’t think those skills are… Read More
TenMarks Education, the education technology company acquired by Amazon last year, is expanding beyond its flagship TenMarks Math interactive math application for students — announcing a new program designed to help teachers prepare… Read More
If you graduated with a science, tech, engineering or math degree — also known as “STEM” — and want to increase your chances of landing a gig, there are some… Read More
Two Washington CEOs — and former Microsoft colleagues — made a Top 100 CEO list for executives that were recognized for making a difference in science, technology, engineering and math… Read More
The incredible talent that the University of Washington pumps out every year was on display during Tuesday’s Seattle Tech Meetup, as five startups with UW ties gave five-minute pitches to… Read More
It started with some frustation over math homework at the dining room table, but now, the ideas of 12-year-old Isabel Hughes are front-and-center on Amazon’s App Store. Earlier this year,… Read More
When Jeff Charbonneau begins class everyday at Zillah High, he says the same thing: “Welcome to paradise, everybody.” No, Zillah High isn’t on the sandy shores of Hawaii. In fact, the… Read More
A recent survey showed that an estimated 30,000 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) jobs in Washington will go unfilled in the next five years due to a lack of qualified candidates.… Read More
A new bill in the Washington State Legislature may allow computer science classes to count as a math or science requirement toward high school graduation. Currently, Washington high schoolers who take… Read More
Washington STEM, a nonprofit that supports science, technology, engineering, and math education across the state, has awarded 14 grants to educators in Washington. The one-year investments are used to encourage teachers to… Read More
The study of mathematics is largely about abstract theories. But Jeb Pavleas and Jack Chang Keng-Wei — two enterprising students at the University of Washington-Bothell — think they can make math… Read More
It’s national Pi Day, which means geeks and math nerds everywhere are celebrating the beauty of the mathematical constant of 3.14. Over at Zillow.com — a Seattle company known for… Read More
