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 ...

Michelle Manes has taught math in almost every setting. She taught public high school students, deaf elementary school students, and middle school girls at a single-sex school. But eventually, she ...

Ethan Eastwood is graduating from J.L. Isley High School in Halifax this year — at age 16. What’s Ethan’s secret? Participating in Nova Scotia Math Circles, a mathematics outreach program based out of ...

Navajo women instill the love for patterns and math into children at an early age. From intricate numerical systems to astronomical observatories, from suspension bridges to geometrical ornaments and ...

SHIPPENSBURG — A new pilot program at Grace B. Luhrs University Elementary School is teaching students to have fun and use their creativity to solve real-world problems with basic mathematics ...

Ian MacIntosh is the sort of grade 10 student who waxes poetically about fractals and game theory, and who can calculate square roots by hand. In short: Ian loves math. “I remember playing with a ...

In a new film, George Paul Csicsery shares Navajo children’s delight in summer math camp. Sound surprising? It is! Every summer Navajo children get up early and come from miles to a summer program at ...

The countries that made up the Soviet Union, which collapsed in 1991, have produced many talented people. In particular, critic John Smith, based on the writings of mathematician Alexander Zvonkin, ...