This website focuses on “magic squares” and their mathematical significance. Magic squares received their name because there are so many relationships between the sums of the numbers filling the squares. Students can...

In this article, Alan Schoenfeld presents his insightful commentary on a “productive, middle-ground” theory in opposition to the extremist views of the math wars. Schoenfeld reviews the history of Mathematics education...

This site includes a number of mathematical lessons that help to illustrate historical math concepts. Each link provides a short example that would provide helpful supplemental materials in mathematics education. The...

Linked essay on architecture and mathematics as the study of patterns. With references and other related web sites.

In 1834, the Committee on Military Affairs at the United States Military Academy at West Point was unequivocal in their support for mathematics, noting that "Mathematics is the study which forms the foundation of the...