NASA is testing an innovative approach to help improve student performance in mathematics by challenging them to solve the real-world problems involved with controlling airplanes in the sky. During ...

If you thought math wouldn’t be a problem for rocket scientists, you’d be wrong. NASA has been overpaying contractors because the math officials there use to calculate performance awards is “overly ...

The SpaceMath@NASA mathematics resource for teachers and students recently achieved a landmark number of downloads. On Feb. 23, 2011, a visitor downloaded the 3 millionth mathematics problem set from ...

Many years before Susan Kilrain became a U.S. Navy TA-4J Skyhawk flight instructor and the second female NASA astronaut to pilot a space shuttle, her dad supported her youthful dreams during an era ...

NASA today announced that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), Boston, has incorporated math problems developed by the SpaceMath@NASA program into some of its latest curriculum and educational products.

St. Mary's High School students took on the roles of Wilbur and Orville Wright, brothers who invented the airplane, for a math and science project. The entire freshmen class at the all-boys school on ...

Student activities blend delicious science with a healthy dose of real-life NASA missions. Answers will be shared on 3/15. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Caroline Waterlow, Katherine Johnson and Ezra Edelman at the 89th Annual Academy Awards – Press Room held at the Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood on Feb. 26, 2017. (Photo credit: ...

Will this silly story never die? I've mentioned previously that NASA didn't invent Teflon, Velcro, or Tang; we therefore deduce that it can't be making money on the patents. Making a Buck I once heard ...