As reported in the Des Moines Register, "Jobs in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) are growing at four times the rate of other career sectors."
For that reason, parents can do a lot to help their kids recognize the value of studying these subjects and prepare for careers in these fields. This column provides a number of suggestions for helping children fall in love with the sciences.
A group of researchers from BYU believes so.
Professor Michael Goodrich and his group of graduate student researchers have formulated algorithms that could aid rescue teams in narrowing down possible locations of lost hikers.
"A lot of search and rescue has a fairly mathematical component, " said Professor Goodrich.
Read this article from Provo, Utah’s Daily Herald.
Brazilian soccer player Roberto Carlos probably never expected that his near-impossible goal would become a mathematical study.
Read this article from WIRED Magazine on the historic kick, and mathematicians’ work to calculate a formula describing it.
The world is obsessed with beautiful people, things and places.
Adam Frank’s blog on NPR explores the beauty of the Euler Identity. What in math is beautiful to you?
You’ve no doubt seen portrayals of crazy mathematicians or inaccurate representations of the study of mathematics in popular culture.
If you have an interest or talent for mathematics, you probably feel the misrepresentations are uncalled for. Good thing there are others who feel as you do who strive to correct these portrayals. Here’s an interesting blog from The Atlantic on the world’s idea of the field versus the real work of mathematics.