The real award is that you competed. The golden ratio is famous, but maybe more so as an image of a nautilus shell with a rectangle drawn around it than as the actual idea of the ratio it embodies: “A ...

Understanding fractions is a critical mathematical ability, and yet it's one that continues to confound a lot of people well into adulthood. New research finds evidence for an innate ratio processing ...

As my first semester of college comes to a close, it is astonishing to look back on all that I’ve learned. However, despite not taking a math class this semester, one thing that I seemed to learn a ...

“Do you see the pattern? Each number in the series after the first two numbers is the sum of the preceding two numbers.” That’s how I began my last column focusing on the Fibonacci sequence, which ...

The golden ratio is an almost mythical number that you may have heard of in various areas of architecture or design. For example, many claim the ancient Greek Parthenon has numerous examples of the ...

Ricky oversees and leads the editorial team for EdTech: Focus on K-12 magazine. He's a writer, technology enthusiast, superhero lover and eternally curious. In the quest to make STEM more interesting, ...

Dan Brown’s blockbuster book, “The Da Vinci Code,” already has upset the Catholic church and confounded medieval historians. Now, you can add mathematicians to the list. As the movie version of the ...