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The NSDL was created by the National Science Foundation in 2000 to provide organized access to high quality online resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

"In In Pursuit of the Unknown, celebrated mathematician Ian Stewart uses a handful of mathematical equations to explore the vitally important connections between math and human progress."

From the abstract (full text requires subscription or purchase): "Though cooperative learning has been a topic of considerable interest in educational research, there has been little study specific to learning in the mathematics content area of geometry. This paper seeks to address that gap through a design experiment featuring a novel small-group computing environment for supporting student learning about quadrilaterals. In this design, each student controls a unique point in a shared geometric space, and those points are linked such that a group of four students collectively forms a quadrilateral. We first present results from pre- and post-measures to show how the students learned from the activities and developed in terms of geometric reasoning. We then present three episodes, elaborated with the notion of appropriation, to explain how students took up ways of using the technological tools and of talking about geometric concepts from one another in the interactive environment. Our study found that students achieved learning gains in this novel environment, that the environment provided rich opportunities for peer interaction around geometric objects, and that student learning opportunities and interactions were characterized by processes of appropriating ways of talking about and using software features."

Press release announcing new math learning product, accessible in the Apps store, and successful funding initiative

Criticism of technology in math and science education, particularly asserts studies that outline benefits of tools either lack rigor or are effectively marketing for such resources.

"An Accessible Guide to Historical, Foundational and Application Contexts" (Springer, 2013)

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A collection of resources, noting that the theme this year is mathematics of sustainability

An overview of online course offerings with an emphasis on data and statistics

"Broadening participation among women and racial/ethnic minorities in science, technology, engineering and maths" , book chapter excerpt

Article discusses the effect of subtle messages communicated to children through adults' anxiety about math and science abilities

Educational music videos, many featuring math topics (giving rise to a new entertainment class which EdSurge calls "MuVHEMs: Music Videos Helping Explain Mathematics"

A group of educators sharing interesting resources around the teaching and learning of mathematics.

"As Markov chains have become commonplace tools, the story of their origin has largely faded from memory. The story is worth retelling. It features an unusual conjunction of mathematics and literature, as well as a bit of politics and even theology."

Maria Chudnovsky, mathematician, is one of 23 MacArthur Fellowship recipients in 2012. She is an associate professor in the department of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia University and specializes in graph theory. With colleagues she successfully solved the "Srong Perfect Graph Theorem" which was proposed in the 1960s, and her research is potentially "deepening the connections between graph theory and other major branches of mathematics, such as linear programming, geometry, and complexity theory." A video featuring the awardee can be viewed on the web site.

Published in 2014, tells the story of how, in the seventeenth century, Italian Jesuit authorities evidently tried to suppress the idea of infinitesimals in mathematics and how subsequently their flourishing led to the development of calculus and shifted the balance of world culture and the influence of nations.

An encyclopedia of current mathematics knowledge. Interesting recreations.

forthcoming book from University of Chicago Press, June 2012

"Move the World, a workshop first tried out at Gymnasium Delbrück (a high school) that leveraged math and virtual worlds to increase high school juniors' interest in computer science."

Survey of federal STEM education programs

Profiles a study by the Rand Corporation that contradicts other studies and reports by showing that student test scores in math and science have not declined over the last decade. Whether there is a correlation between student performance and technological growth remains to be seen.