Sudoku and other puzzles can incorporate play and critical thinking skills, while easing students into solving standard math ...

Blizzards are a real-life example of what game theorists call the “snowdrift problem,” a cousin of the prisoner’s dilemma ...

March 14 circles back on the calendar, and Pi Day gives Americans a reason to smile at math instead of stress over it. What ...

Yitzi Snow makes his New York Times Crossword debut. The New York Times has launched the Midi, a daily medium-size crossword.

Fox’s lecture, and the accompanying colloquium he’ll present on March 11, are part of his three-day appearance as the William and Marjorie Blackwell Scholar-in-Residence program. The program is named ...

Math is crucial in many fields yet more students are now functionally innumerate and many students do not go on to qualify ...

Wauwatosa School Board reform slate candidates test whether the nuts-and-bolts of good governance and financial accountability can win in hyper partisan times.

Longtime solvers become fluent in the syntax of crossword clues. There are the qualifiers after commas that indicate modern usage (“in slang,” say) or abbreviation (“for short,” for one). And when a ...

Speaking confidently before an audience did not always come naturally to Primary 6 pupil Carys Ang, who describes herself as shy and lacking in confidence when she was younger.

If Oklahoma legislators spent the money invested in private school tax credits, they wouldn’t have to mess with their pension ...

"Loneliness in the second half of life needs to be a focus of public health policy." ...

The types of glass that we encounter in everyday life, such as window glass or smartphone screens, are disordered solids. This means that they consist of particles locked in place, like those in ...