The students huddled around their tables, scribbling and erasing their notes, nodding and shaking their heads and rearranging the blocks in front of them. “There has to be a hole in the middle.” “We ...

Trey Smith wanted to find new ways to teach math in the classroom, so he organized the Philadelphia Engineering and Math Challenge as a lab for problem-solving-based approaches to teaching. Student ...

Garver engineers visited fourth grade students for National Engineering Week, using a gumdrop bridge challenge to spark a ...

Using their knowledge of angles, the high schoolers had to rearrange mirrors to make a laser hit a specific point. Meanwhile, the judges walked around with laser pointers, testing the contraptions.

Hartnell College’s K-12 STEAM Program hosted NASA Integrated Engineering Challenges as part of the NASA Aerospace Scholars ...

Princeton Professor Andrew Houck’s calculus students had just finished grappling with a set of equations on the forces of tension and gravity when he pulled a large pendulum back to his shoulder and ...

Even though our teenage children may not show it the proper appreciation (yet), math is often referred to as the “universal language.” And it is, even in EDA. Whenever I’m asked what the heck I do in ...