Author Lewis Carroll was also a math teacher in Oxford, England, and mathematicians say the Alice books are full of algebraic lessons — such as why a raven is like a writing desk. That's the ...

While Kirk Cousins and the Redskins try to negotiate a contract (or maybe not), Cousins has been posting Instagrams about an old math test and books he’s going to be reading. On Wednesday ...

While you won't find an apology in math books these days, you will find a curriculum — word problems and all — not that different from the lessons that filled textbooks 500 years ago.

I have written about mathematics for The New Yorker and, lately, also in my book “A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age,” and I thought that I had ...

A while ago, I got interested in mathematics, mostly because I had done so poorly at it in school. I’m being coy. I didn’t do poorly; I pretty much failed. I only passed by cheating. Anyway, I ...

“By embedding math into the books,” Purpura said, “we are able to support parents in teaching their children math in an activity that they already typically do.” Seventy-four children and their ...

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The comic book format takes liberties beyond apples and oranges. When the gray-haired gym teacher walks by, a student named Jaime does math: “3 ear hairs plus 2 nose hairs equals 5 old guy hairs.” ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — After rejecting 54 math books from the coming school year’s approved texts, based on what it called “publisher’s attempts to indoctrinate students,” the Florida ...