School mathematics in South Africa is often seen as a sign of the health of the education system more generally. Under the racial laws of apartheid, until 1994, African people were severely restricted ...

South Africa has been struggling with mathematics education for quite some time now. It seems that something is always going wrong, and the students are not being taught what they need to know. In ...

Fort Valley State beat out some Ivy League schools, such as Harvard and Georgetown, when it comes to African-American math graduates. An academic journal, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, recently ...

There are six mathletes left in Cruxlearning Mathematics Contest Africa (CLMCA) as the race for the title of the champion and university scholarship gets to the final lap this week. Twelve mathletes ...

Canada’s prime minister, Stephen Harper, pledged almost $19-million on Tuesday to help African nations develop more engineers and researchers. Money will be used to build five African “centers of ...

Mathematics underpins science, technology and modern society - from cell phones to computers and satellites. On September 6, 2011, the Government of Senegal led by His Excellency President Abdoulaye ...

This winter semester, Mathematics Münster is pleased to host three new YAM Fellows from the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Cameroon and Rwanda. Over the next year, they will ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Evelyn Gitau became hooked on chemistry in high school in Kenya. Alta Schutte remembers nearly losing her father to cardiovascular disease in the South African mining town where ...

The United States may not have won the Space Race had it not been for the contributions of three African-American women. World War II left the US with a shortage of male labor, leading various federal ...