SAN FRANCISCO — Regis Philbin, be warned: A national spelling bee champ is stumping game show hosts. Evan O’Dorney, of Danville, tangled with nine of the nation’s brightest young mathematicians and ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

After reading Pete Pichaske’s article (“A new way to teach spelling,” March 7), I felt spurred on to reframe the issue of mathematical literacy. Ineffective teaching strategies for spelling have also ...

The three-day competition begins Tuesday at the Scripps National Spelling Bee and 14 North Carolina students are among the competitors. Ask Jae Canetti to recite pi, and the numbers come out like a ...

Word Party Presents: Math! Season 1 is an educational children’s series where baby animals learn math through playful adventures. Guided by Math Molly and Cookitybot, they explore various activities ...

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WASHINGTON – In the early 1970s, when college for many meant antiwar protests and experimenting with recreational drugs, friends say Ben S. Bernanke was busy at Harvard and MIT trying to figure out ...

Click the Insert tab In the Symbol group, click the Equation button and select insert new equation from the drop-down menu. Word will show the equation tab, which contains all the equation tools. Yes, ...

Commentary: We are losing something important when schools move away from the basics, letting technology fill in the gaps ...

Words matter. And when it comes to learning math, they matter more than you might think.