Math is everywhere, from the gas station and grocery store to the stock market and science magazines. And it shows up, of course, in schools at all levels. But the educational system doesn’t provide ...

For far too many of us, numbers are a tricky, nearly mystifying concept. That could be traced, as it is for me, to torturous math classes. My somewhat acerbic and justifiably frustrated trigonometry ...

Flipping through a deck of cards in the library as her friends and classmates slough through books and papers means that, sometimes, people want answers from Carolyn Chen. "I usually have to reassure ...

While Princeton senior Alexander Iriza, of Astoria, New York, credits his parents for sparking his interest in math — his mother gave him math workbooks when he was a toddler — that was merely "a ...