Mike DeGraba is not your typical math teacher. To teach probability, he dresses up as a magician. For a lesson on multiplying polynomials, he becomes Groucho Marx. To divide monomials, he pretends to ...

"My job is to interact with kids," says Alonzo Nelson, Jr., who teaches high school math in Belleville, Illinois. "I miss the human element of it" After almost a year-and-a-half t eaching classes via ...

Women make up nearly half of the college-educated workforce, but hold less than a quarter of STEM jobs — as in jobs that involve science, technology, engineering and math. Actress turned mathematician ...

This post is the second in a series teasing out lessons from the first season of my Cool Schools podcast. See the first installment, on talent, here. Cool Schools set out to do something different. As ...

Earlier this fall, I wrapped up season one of my Cool Schools podcast. I had the privilege of interviewing interesting and innovative school leaders from across the country and pressing them on what ...