Read more from Slate’s special issue on science education and give us your best ideas for raising the next generation of scientists and engineers. When Longfellow Middle School in Falls Church, Va., ...

Mathematicians are on a mission to replace the costly software used in education and research with a free, open-source version. More than 100 mathematicians around the world are helping to develop the ...

GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for ...

Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into one interface. Their mission is “Creating a viable free open source alternative ...