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Math

Historic calculators invented in Nazi concentration camp will be on exhibit at Seattle Holocaust center

In an age when a smartphone or an AI voice assistant can provide the answer to nearly any math-related query,… Read More

Do the math with Steve Brunton, a UW professor whose YouTube popularity keeps adding up

There’s online teaching and then there’s cool YouTube-style teaching with a lightboard, neon-colored markers, a black backdrop and a Steve… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Stand-up mathematician; healthcare at home; geeky music; and more

— Math is one of those subjects that seems to be divisive among students as they grow up. Basically, you… Read More

Emma Haruka Iwao with digits of pi

Celebrate Pi Day with 31.4 trillion digits from Google (plus a tasty slice of pie)

What’s the best way to celebrate Pi Day? That’s the geeky holiday that takes place on 3/14 … in other… Read More

Pi Day mashes up math and munchies

Pi Day plays off the fact that March 14 – 3/14 – is a numerical pun on math’s best-known irrational number: pi,… Read More

Meet the minds behind Axiomatic: An art project based in theoretical mathematics

At first glance, Timea Tihanyi and Jayadev Athreya make strange bedfellows. Tihanyi is an interdisciplinary visual artist who teaches in the University… Read More

Facebook security exec Regina Wallace-Jones: Why technical skills aren’t enough to be a great engineer

The head of security operations at Facebook, Regina Wallace-Jones, is in charge of protecting 1.6 billion people. She’s an engineer who does math and… Read More

Amazon’s TenMarks unveils new service to get math teachers up to speed

TenMarks Education, the education technology company acquired by Amazon last year, is expanding beyond its flagship TenMarks Math interactive math… Read More

Got a science or math degree? Here are the best places to find work

If you graduated with a science, tech, engineering or math degree — also known as “STEM” — and want to… Read More

Ballmer, Myhrvold make Top 100 list recognizing CEOs impacting science, tech education

Two Washington CEOs — and former Microsoft colleagues — made a Top 100 CEO list for executives that were recognized… Read More

UW’s Ed Lazowska: ‘Washington is the ass end of the donkey in just about every aspect of education’

The incredible talent that the University of Washington pumps out every year was on display during Tuesday’s Seattle Tech Meetup,… Read More

Fraction calculator invented by 12-year-old now Amazon’s Free App of the Day

It started with some frustation over math homework at the dining room table, but now, the ideas of 12-year-old Isabel… Read More

Here’s why this do-it-all science instructor is the 2013 National Teacher of the Year

When Jeff Charbonneau begins class everyday at Zillah High, he says the same thing: “Welcome to paradise, everybody.” No, Zillah High… Read More

UW-Bothell becomes first university in Wash. to create School of STEM

A recent survey showed that an estimated 30,000 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) jobs in Washington will go unfilled in the… Read More

Washington bill could make CSE classes count for math, science credit

A new bill in the Washington State Legislature may allow computer science classes to count as a math or science requirement… Read More

Check out these 14 ‘entrepreneur’ grants for STEM education

Washington STEM, a nonprofit that supports science, technology, engineering, and math education across the state, has awarded 14 grants to educators in… Read More

Video: UW students utilize the Kinect to teach math

The study of mathematics is largely about abstract theories. But Jeb Pavleas and Jack Chang Keng-Wei — two enterprising students at… Read More

Photo: What better way to celebrate ‘Pi Day’ than a pie eating contest

It’s national Pi Day, which means geeks and math nerds everywhere are celebrating the beauty of the mathematical constant of… Read More

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