BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — The first-ever Math Field Day was held at California State University Bakersfield in 1971. Fifty-two years later, it continues strong as schools from all around Kern ...

Jasmine Herring, an Independence High senior, had only heard about competing at the Lee Webb Math Field Day from her siblings. The event was canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID and went virtual ...

President Obama’s 2014 budget request includes programs for research, development, and education in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. He has called for 100,000 new STEM ...

The 36th annual Intermediate Math Field Day for the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District took place virtually for the first time on Dec. 12. Students met online with their school Math Club ...

A total of 120 fourth and fifth graders from the district’s 10 elementary schools spent the morning Saturday, Jan. 21 competing in the school district’s 32nd annual Elementary Math Field Day, a press ...

Princeton's Andrei Okounkov has received one of this year's Fields Medals, widely considered to be the math world's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. The awards for outstanding mathematical achievement ...

Every pure mathematician has experienced that awkward moment when asked, “So what’s your research good for?” There are standard responses: a proud “Nothing!”; an explanation that mathematical research ...

How can we fix the leaky pipeline that results in the field of mathematics being dominated by men? How are women in math treated in their workplace environments? What barriers exist that make it ...