ECTOR COUNTY, Texas — In a world where children spend more time than ever on devices like iPads and laptops, Ector County ISD is transforming that screen time into valuable learning with a new math ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

My son came home from school one day a few months ago asking whether he could play yet another new video game a friend had told him about. This happens a couple of times a month—and often results in ...

While I am financially savvy, I’m also into some lighthearted spending logic. And if your math brain works anything like mine, we might agree on some things: anything less than $5 is free; it’s smart ...

The problem with social media in-jokes is they don’t stay funny for long. Someone takes them too seriously, then they become overblown commentaries on society as a whole, and then a media outlet goes ...