Evan O’Dorney leaps from his seat and snatches the chalk from his teacher’s hand. “I think it goes like this,” the eighth-grader exclaims. He has come up with a formula for the number of ways to ...

Cooks use math to make beautiful food all the time: Slicing eight perfect pieces of pie or doubling a recipe requires basic knowledge of fractions, for example. But how many cooks think about using ...

Over the last few months, as metro Detroit students have been returning to their classrooms, a critical element of instruction is missing for far too many of them: math teachers. A 2021 study by ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — In celebration of Black History Month, a local group is taking time to recognize Black mathematicians that have become role models for members of the Orlando Math Circle (OMC).

There was a time that I thought that understanding math was more useful than memorizing it. A certain amount of memorization is essential, especially for lower-level math. For example, you need to ...