If you saw the movie or the trailer to Incredibles 2, you probably chuckled at the scene where Mr. Incredible gets exasperated trying to help his son with math homework. His son, Dash, holds up the textbook titled “New Math for Life” and tells his dad ..
Mathnasium is proud to be part of the nationwide movement to interest more girls in math. We encourage parents to promote their daughters’ interest in math. In the past, women did not have access to higher education and careers in math, which created a fi..
“It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.” -Sofia Kovalevskaya We don’t often think of math as something that’s “dangerous” or “forbidden”; after all, what could be so dangerous about numbers? Russian-born Sofia Kovalevskay..
At Mathnasium of Parker, we know that success requires perseverance, resourcefulness, and confidence. Strong math skills help, too. These three stories are about children who showed exactly the skills and habits we work on with students enrolled at our ce..
Engineers should be good at math and design. Accountants should be good at math and allocating resources. Gender, race, and people's personalities are not important qualifications for doing jobs well. There is a stereotype about what people in math-rel..
Broke Many Boundaries with Math Katherine Johnson is celebrated by NASA as one its of their pioneering physicists and mathematicians. She played an integral role in calculating the routes of many space missions, including the one to the moon. In fact, Jo..
Wilma Rudolph, or “Skeeter,” won three gold medals in the track and field Olympics in 1956 and 1960. She was the first American woman to have this honor. Jackie Joyner-Kersee competed in the 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996 Olympics and won a total of six medals i..
Carl Gauss was No Ordinary 7 Year Old Boy Carl was born April 30th 1777 in the area that is now Germany. His teachers quickly noticed an aptitude for numbers and creative thinking. In order to challenge him they asked him to add all the integers from 1 ..
