GRAND HAVEN, Mich. — JJ Scott is a regular 5-year-old with an extraordinary passion for numbers. While most children his age are focused on cartoons or playing outside, JJ is spending his free time ...

Hannah Cairo found herself stuck on a problem that wouldn’t leave her mind. It wasn’t a regular homework assignment—it was a decades-old mathematical puzzle believed to be true by leading experts in ...

In 1950 Edward Nelson, then a student at the University of Chicago, asked the kind of deceptively simple question that can give mathematicians fits for decades. Imagine, he said, a graph—a collection ...

As a math teacher, I constantly research the best ways to deliver math concepts. The Oct. 17 article, "Newer new math," a concept aimed at making students "lifelong mathematical thinkers," is one of ...

Arjun Srivatsa is smarter than a fifth-grader. In fact, the 9-year-old, who should be in fourth grade, is smarter than sixth-graders and some seventh-graders. When the young West Fargo math whiz ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By day, Irvin Randle is a second grade math teacher in Houston and a grandfather, married for almost four decades. After school, ...