Numbers and algorithms aren’t just useful to mathematician Eugenia Cheng -- they’re exhilarating. That’s why she’s on a mission to help transform math’s notoriously boring reputation in education into ...

On Tuesday night, more than a thousand Howard County students and their parents gathered at Long Reach High School to participate in a wide variety of math-related activities, from cooking to sports ...

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 ...

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 ...

A dozen parents gathered around veteran math educator Leanna Baker, moments before students show up for what is billed as a math “festival” for students at Allendale Elementary School in Oakland. “Do ...

Eugenia Cheng is devoted to pure mathematics—an abstract field that is complex, largely theoretical, and scarcely mentioned in high school. Which makes her an unlikely candidate to bring math to the ...

Usama has a passion for video games and a talent for capturing their magic in writing. He brings games to life with his words, and he's been fascinated by games for as long as he's had a joystick in ...

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 ...

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