Every so often, the Pentagon's blue sky research arm gets slammed, for funding investigations that are a little too down-to-Earth. Then Darpa turns around, and sponsors a new project to "develop a ...

Teaching set theory to six-year-olds as a way into mathematics, from arithmetic on, would come to be considered misguided, overcomplicating the basics and introducing jargon. Yet however radical a ...

Marcia Standard embraced the research of Jean Piaget when it came to education. She applied his theory of cognitive development to teaching math and experienced success. In 1981, after years as an ...