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 ...

I had never heard the term, “math circle,” until a few weeks ago when I stumbled across an article in The Atlantic about the growing number of American kids excelling in the highest levels of math. It ...

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 ...

Imagine walking into a math classroom. Everything is quiet, students are diligently writing and reading and thinking. You hear the rustle of paper, scratching pens, and the occasional student shifting ...

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 ...