Architect and mathematician Christopher Alexander died at age 85 on March 17. “The end of an era,” one of my colleagues remarked. She was perhaps referring to Alexander’s influential trajectory of ...

Patterning and spatial activities like playing with blocks are simple yet powerful activities through which preschoolers develop early math skills, according to new research. A 4-year-old lines up ...

Mathematical patterns reveal profound truths about the universe and, surprisingly, about our inner lives as well. These five visual math concepts offer unique frameworks for understanding our behavior ...