Using yarn and two pointy needles (knitting ... chair of the math department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, wanted to demonstrate the patterns that could emerge in a cyclic group ...

She knitted along the knotted needles and ended up ... Irvine used mathematics to develop an algorithm for creating novel lace patterns. On the other hand, Central Connecticut State University ...

But how can parents and teachers support young children’s mathematics knowledge? One often overlooked activity is patterning, or thinking about patterns. Patterns are predictable sequences ...

Imagine you’re rolling down the street in a driverless car when you see a problem ahead. An Amazon delivery driver got their van halfway past a double-parked UPS truck before realizing they couldn’t ...

It is rare to read about “spectacular progress” or a “once-in-a-century” result in mathematics ... to the question of how to rotate a needle in such a way that it takes up as little ...

Iranian game maker Mahdi Bahrami’s Engare allows users to create their own intricate patterns found in Islamic ... game maker Mahdi Bahrami turns the mathematics of Islamic art into a puzzle.