Following up on his three posts on classical education yesterday, Gene Veith weighs in on mathematics instruction: I admit that classical education may be lagging in the math department. The new ...

Classical physics is characterized by the equations describing the world. Yet our day-to-day experience is struck by this deterministic vision of the world. A physicist has been analyzing the ...

Explicit learning goals Interactive lectures Transformed homework problems (including a "bank" of potential HW problems) Common student difficulties & in-class group activities/tutorials Concept tests ...

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college in the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News is introducing ...

Classical Math Problem Gets Pulled Into the Modern World | RealClearScience Long before robots could run or cars could drive themselves, mathematicians contemplated a simple mathematical question.