Puzzles are a hands-on way to explore simpler and complex mathematical relationships, for everyone from kids to calculus students.

Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means tabletop games quickly reappear on kitchen tables. Games provide opportunities for learning ...

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. — Stacie Canfield is the math department chair at Central High School and she’s finding new and unique ways to get her students excited about numbers. When she was in high school ...

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This holiday-themed brainteaser looks simple, but it's quietly tripping up adults everywhere. A math teacher walks us through ...

The “Count, Play, Explore” initiative, led by the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools, is working to ignite a love of learning math, science, and computer science for children from ...

Students from Groveton High School traded their calculators for golf clubs this fall, applying their classroom knowledge to ...

Oh. What. Fun. might be too confident a title for a Christmas movie that on the one hand is damned lucky to have lured the great Michelle Pfeiffer to be its star, but on the other hand loses the magic ...

My family has been longtime fans of the Museum of Math, meeting the team behind this hands-on museum long before it had a ...

Veteran teacher Courtney Phillips discovered that math can be taught in an engaging way through the ancient game of mahjong, which requires strategy, analysis, problem solving, and math.

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

Administering an exam used to be straightforward: All a college professor needed was an open room and a stack of blue books. At many American universities, this is no longer true. Professors now ...