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Pencils Down: Soni Midha of East Side Community High School
In school or in life, Soni Midha wants her math students to be able to prove why something is correct.
Pencils Down: Channa Comer of Baychester Middle School
Channa Comer teaches 6th-grade science. She focuses on engagement so kids will want to keep learning.
Pencils Down: Aaron Mathieu of Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Students need a chance to fail at science to learn about its process, says Aaron Mathieu.
Pencils Down: Channa Comer Teaching About Scientific Controls
What’s a control? Channa Comer challenges her students to explain and work things out for themselves.
Pencils Down: The Art of Teaching Math and Science
What can we learn from the best teachers on the front lines? To shine a spotlight on this linchpin of our education system, Quanta Magazine followed four master science and math teachers into their classrooms.
Off-the-Shelf Lens Assists Dark Matter Find
A camera lens often used by wildlife and sports photographers has helped astronomers learn about dark matter and galaxy formation.
Peter and Rosemary Grant: Watching Evolution Happen in Two Lifetimes
Peter and Rosemary Grant explain how our understanding of evolution has changed in their lifetimes.
Responding Rapidly to Big Discoveries
How do scientists react to major breaking science news? For astrophysicists after the big gravitational waves announcement, it was meeting for two weeks in Santa Barbara, California.
Tracy Slatyer: A Seeker of Dark Matter’s Hidden Light
Tracy Slatyer explains why she’s not disappointed when a mysterious cosmic signal turns out to be something other than dark matter.