“Does this look like math?” “No!” replied a gaggle of delighted kids gathered around Colm Mulcahy, a magician doing mathematical card tricks on a recent Saturday in the Campus Center. Mulcahy’s tricks ...

A new study finds traditional math instruction – what many folks call "drill and kill" – is more effective in helping young children struggling in math than group work, peer tutoring or hands-on ...

SEATTLE — A beloved toy store in north Seattle is picking up the pieces after suspects smashed a truck into the business during an attempted break-in early Tuesday morning. Police responded to ...

When 6,500 mathematicians converge on Seattle for a convention early next year, a Redmond 11th-grader will be a star of their show. Abishek Hariharan, a 16-year-old junior at Tesla STEM High School, ...

Lindsey Henderson hopes to change the conversation about math in her state. As student math performance declined in Utah and states across the nation over the pandemic, most learning-recovery efforts ...

To celebrate Pi Day, we’ve pulled some of the darkest, weirdest, most fascinating movies about math — which, let’s be honest, is a pretty limited genre. No one liked math in school and no one likes ...

In colonial times and the early years of the Republic, most girls who learned a bit of math studied at home or in dame schools. They might sew numbers onto a sampler, as in the example shown. When ...