Introducing WordleBot, the Upshot’s Daily Wordle Companion
What is it?WordleBot is a tool that will take your completed Wordle and analyze it for you. It will give you overall scores for luck and skill on a scale from 0 to 99 and tell you at each turn what, if anything, you could have done differently — if solving Wordles in as few…
Muneer Ahmed: “Whenever I complete a course, I start planning for the next one.”
“My name is Muneer Ahmed. I was born in Karachi in 1954. My parents came to Pakistan when Pakistan was founded in 1947. Both my parents were uneducated but very hard working. My father ran a printing press and my mother was a housewife. I completed my early education in an English language school before…
Teach Triangular Numbers With Steven Strogatz and The New York Times
Invite students to uncover how a centuries-old math puzzle helped us see inside the human brain.
Explore the Math Behind the Golden Ratio With Steven Strogatz and The New York...
What do an apple, a pentagram and a belly button have in common? They all invite students to investigate a famous geometric proportion.
Starting University in September? Get a head start with Alison!
For a new generation of young people, the university experience is just around the corner. Every September, millions of students land in campuses around the world to begin their journey of third level education. The step from secondary school to university can seem a daunting one to some, and the shift from teacher-led learning to…
Robert J. Zimmer, Who Promoted Free Speech on Campus, Dies at 75
Robert J. Zimmer, a mathematician who as president of the University of Chicago championed diversity not only quantitatively, in the recruitment of students and faculty, but also by protecting free expression on campus with a protocol that was later embraced by dozens of colleges across the country, died on Tuesday at his home in Chicago.…
Teach Taxicab Geometry With Steven Strogatz and The New York Times
Welcome students to a world of math where pi equals 4 and circles aren’t round.
Unpack the Math of Packing With Steven Strogatz and The New York Times
Invite students to explore how bees, soda cans and big data all solve the same problem: not enough space.
“Qué es y qué no es”: el sueño de René Descartes que revolucionó las...
El poder de las matemáticas reside en la forma en que su lenguaje y sus símbolos nos han permitido manipular el mundo. Pero durante siglos fue un mundo que seguía las reglas de Dios y la Iglesia. En el siglo XVII, emergió una nueva generación de intelectuales que no temía desafiar a la autoridad. Hubo…
