Bootstrap started as a 10-week after-school program. It was created by Emmanuel Schanzer, a former computer programmer turned math teacher and now a Ph.D. student in the Harvard Graduate School of ...

President Obama earlier this year announced a new initiative, “Computer Science for All,” to empower a generation of American students with the computing skills they need to thrive in a digital ...

Integrating Programming with Core Curriculum There has been a steady and growing call for more students to learn computer programming. As they try to answer that call, some educators are looking ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A group of University of New Mexico professors wants more kids to get involved in math and computers. So they’re trying to get a bilingual program started in middle schools.

image: Bootstrap is a curriculum that helps kids learn algebra as they program their own video games. A new $1.5-million grant from the National Science Foundation will help researchers refine the ...

There is a general sense that programming is related to math and that people who are successful in math are often successful at programming. For math teachers, a natural question arises: “What is the ...

This post was updated to clarify benefits of the program to Oakland Unified students. A growing number of students in Oakland Unified are learning math by playing a computer game that asks students to ...

For as long as Jake Price has been a teacher, Wolfram Alpha — a website that solves algebraic problems online — has threatened to make algebra homework obsolete. Teachers learned to work around and ...

BYFIELD — Triton Regional School District already has a robotics team and 3D printers. Now it is going a step further to build on its focus on STEM (Science ...