NEW YORK — At the kitchen table in Brooklyn, N.Y., Victoria Morey has been known to sit down with her 9-year-old son and do something she’s not supposed to. “I am a rebel,” this mother of two ...

When I was in ninth grade, my English teacher assigned selections from S.I. Hayakawa’s “Language in Thought and Action.” My friends and I were initially baffled by his concepts. Still, we eventually ...

The four Overby siblings have math stars as bookends: My older sister, the former high school mathematics teacher; my younger brother, the civil engineer. Ten years of age separate those two, but part ...

Common Core math is getting the works from critics: It's too demanding for most kids; holds back the speedy kids; not the same as what parents already know; makes kids cry. It even promotes "fuzzy ...

Mathematics should make sense. A simple enough statement, but for many students and adults, mathematics does not make sense. For far too many students, mathematics seems more like magic than a logical ...

Mathematics is evident in all areas of life, including less obvious ones like textiles. Elisabetta Matsumoto, an assistant professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, sewed a Klein ...