Perhaps no subject in Spokane Public Schools, in recent years, has been as controversial as math. The “math wars,” as they’ve been called for decades, pit reformers who believe math is best taught ...

Happy Tau Day, everyone! Every June 28, a rogue fleet of math nerds makes its case for the abolition of arguably the most important irrational number in the world: pi. These men and women of the "tau" ...

These are three words I heard countless times throughout my childhood. Though, admittedly, as the daughter of a high school math teacher, they were hard to avoid. The fact is, math has always played a ...

Most of us would have rather cheered for turnip greens when we were in fourth grade. A lot of us still would. John Pedicone is not like a lot of us. “This is like a dream come true for me,” he said.

The decision to leave her job as a tenure-track math professor at Barnard College and join hedge fund D.E. Shaw in 2007 seemed like a no-brainer. Cathy O’Neil would apply her math skills to the ...

Recently, I asked the BuzzFeed Community for their best math trick. I'm not talking quantum physics here, but just, you know, an easy way to figure out how much butter I need if I'm doubling a recipe.

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The snowstorm named Stella ruined Pi Day for math teachers across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, as they were stuck at ...

There are all kinds of nerds — book nerds, computer nerds, history nerds, science nerds, space nerds, sci-fi nerds, math nerds, even just plain nerd nerds — and the land of the literary has room for ...

State judges bedeviled by weirdly shaped and obviously partisan congressional district maps can now get expert help from an unusual source: math nerds. Using sophisticated techniques drawn from ...