Helping students see how what they are learning in school is relevant to their lives, hopes, and dreams enhances motivation. It can also be challenging to teachers who are tasked with covering a lot ...

Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

A documentary filmmaker and a mathematician discuss our fear of numbers and its civic costs. By Siobhan Roberts “Math is power” is the tag line of a new documentary, “Counted Out,” currently making ...

Breakthroughs in pure mathematics can take decades. A new Defense Department initiative aims to speed things up using artificial intelligence. By Alexander Nazaryan Artificial intelligence can write a ...

The Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (ESAM) at Northwestern University is highly interdisciplinary and focused on applications. Our faculty and students connect with ...