Ah, math. It’s why I became an English major. But now math is spinning back around and haunting me in the form of my fifth grader. Last night, I found myself dealing with how to multiply fractions as ...

The shift to Common Core is still rolling in at most high schools, with teens caught midstride in the traditional algebra-geometry path allowed to finish their journey, while incoming classes start ...

Another highlight was an eye-opening lecture titled, “100 years of elliptic curves” by Jennifer Balakrishnan, a distinguished mathematician renowned for her contributions to number theory.