What prompted the idea for the course? I have always enjoyed writing poetry. As a high school mathematics teacher, I recall telling my students that everything is and can be connected to math, even ...

In Sunil Mishra’s book titled Return of the Hypotenuse, Einstein, Newton and Archimedes’ principles pass through fun meters and rhymes, finds Phorum Dalal Sunil Mishra, the author of Return of the ...

It's fourth period at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Md., and students are filing into a classroom at the end of a long hallway. Jake Scott, who doubles as both varsity wrestling coach ...

Singing songs and rhymes with children may help early numeracy more than counting, a new study suggests. Phonics and phonology (the study of the patterns of sounds in spoken language) may help ...

The Cleveland Children's Museum throws a grand opening Saturday for "Mother Goose Math: Rhyme and Arithmetic," an interactive exhibit that brings to life scenes from well-known nursery rhymes. The ...

a 2 + b 2 = c 2. Remember that from high school math class? That's the Pythagorean theorem, which shows that in a right triangle, where the shorter legs are a and b, the sum of their squares is equal ...

During seven days of this school year, elementary students at Challenger K-8 School of Science and Mathematics will be involved in Math-e-Mania activities. By the end of the year, each of the 40 ...

uncommon courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. I have always enjoyed writing poetry. As a high school mathematics teacher, I ...