Jolting the brain into better math skills: Last week, we had electric currents to the brain inducing flashbacks. This week, the same sort of jolt to a different area of the brain gives us... better ...

Darling (Equations of Eternity), an astronomer and science writer, teams up with a student of his, teenage math prodigy Banerjee, in this enjoyable, wide-ranging volume of essays on such diverse ...

The Senate immigration bill has some weird math. While pundits and politicians of both parties are nearly unanimous in agreeing we need immigration reform, the bill seems crafted more to send a ...

I could stop right there and feel like I’d made a profound statement about our earthly reality, but my editor might not like that. Let me elaborate… Sometimes math doesn’t make sense conceptually. For ...

Introduction Do you ever use math as a tool to solve interesting problems? In the 1970s math was often taught with simple worksheets. One teacher was looking for a way to help his students have more ...

A middle school teacher in Mobile, Ala., has been placed on administrative leave after school officials found out about the use of a math assignment full of racist stereotypes. The Burns Middle School ...

It’s the rare child who’ll choose an afternoon of math homework over a family vacation. That’s partly because of the negative way that we talk about and teach math, says Chris Emdin, a professor of ...