Elementary school classrooms are filled with impressionable young minds learning how to add, multiply, and divide; but few of these students will ever understand the logic and the theory behind their ...
Course descriptions show some schools put math in a religious framework. Sept. 2, 2007 — -- School begins again, and we read more about the intrusion of pseudoscience into school science ...
How is Christian faith like mathematics? The possibilities, as Dr. Annalisa Crannell sketches them, are nearly infinite. Infinity itself, for instance. "Mathematicians and Christians look at very ...
With school starting this week, it got me thinking. Do you remember “New Math”? If you are my age or older, you probably do. In the late ’60s and early ’70s, “New Math” was introduced in our nation’s ...
Using God's "everyday math," countless lives have been transformed, and the healing has begun. In fact, during the ceremony commemorating the events of Sept. 11 in Shanksville, the families of those ...
It's not hard to predict how eagerly the new atheists would pounce if an orthodox Christian theologian were to concede that the notion that God is three-in-one could be labeled "irrational." Or that ...
Ten years ago, Jeffrey Adams, a mathematician at the University of Maryland, made an appearance in The New York Times that prompted a series of angry emails. His correspondents all wanted to know one ...
Once upon a time, a great Italian published a work called the Siderius Nuncius. Galileo had seen the moons of Jupiter through his telescope. He had seen Venus moving. So, in 1606, he endorsed the ...
In May 2009, Michele Osherow, an English professor at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County and dramaturg at the Folger Theatre, in Washington, invited her colleague Manil Suri, a mathematician ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...