Within roughly 24 hours in this past week, I ran into two cartoons that dealt with topics we have kicked around before, one of them as recently as the last column. They both dealt with common ...

Math, which has tried a lot of tricks to get kids interested, is about to introduce in Berkeley its latest pitchman -- Homer Simpson. It's going to be lots of fun, boys and girls, really. "People ...

In an entertaining and effective math primer, two children solve a haunted house's riddles using algebra. "The two sides of each equation are balanced. They're equal," Adler explains, before ...

The tug-of-war continues over the safety of children returning to school amid the coronavirus pandemic. That’s how editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis draws it in this week’s lead image. In states ...

The vast majority of students won’t take algebra until middle or high school. But teachers can start laying the groundwork for this pivotal class a lot sooner, some researchers say—and instilling ...