During the COVID years, my wife and I realised that our son was not a typical student of Mathematics. Numbers, symbols, and their relationships had always fascinated him. He would spend hours learning ...

Maths has always been Shloka Suraj’s favourite subject. But, in school, she says, it is often taught in a boring way. “They start saying that it is complex, and they make it complex,” says the ...

Evan O’Dorney leaps from his seat and snatches the chalk from his teacher’s hand. “I think it goes like this,” the eighth-grader exclaims. He has come up with a formula for the number of ways to ...

It’s 10 a.m. on a Saturday at Cal State Fullerton and students are revved up. It’s Math Circle time. Math Circle is a Saturday program for students in second through 12th grade, most of whom are ...

I had never heard the term, “math circle,” until a few weeks ago when I stumbled across an article in The Atlantic about the growing number of American kids excelling in the highest levels of math. It ...

Michelle Manes has taught math in almost every setting. She taught public high school students, deaf elementary school students, and middle school girls at a single-sex school. But eventually, she ...