After a year of distance learning, the range of skill levels in math class is very wide, with some students still learning concepts from several grades behind. That means teachers have to get creative ...

Magdalena Ridge, N.M. (KRQE) – What if there’s a rogue asteroid or comet on a collision course with earth? The only thing that will positively confirm a threat like that is… mathematics. Conveying ...

Perhaps the happiest of Stanford’s new captives is Yale’s Edward G. Begle, 46, a math professor and father of seven who once spent his days hammering topology into graduate students and his nights ...

At the University of Illinois last week, a big man in a rumpled brown suit strode up to a blackboard and wrote: ‘ times zero equals zero.” Then he asked ten junior-high-school students to make the ...

Dan Finkel runs Math for Love with his wife, Katherine Cook. They have developed two games: Tiny Polka Dot: A math-enriched card deck for 3- to 8-year-olds. “It’s really flexible,” Finkel said. You ...

April 30, 2026 - Students at college campuses across California recover hundreds of pounds of unserved food from dining halls to serve to their hungry classmates. A dozen parents gathered around ...

A teacher here in our area may have finally cracked the code to make math fun.

Back in 2008, I read a story about a teacher who used NASCAR to make learning math less painful for his students. Tom Baughman, then teaching the fourth grade, called it “NASCAR Math,” and takes the ...