EVERETT — As a kid he drew cartoons on his math papers. Now he draws math in his cartoons. What’s up with that? “I Hate Math” is a new comic book by Ian Brown, 37, a third grade teacher at Challenger ...

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I hear those three words all the time at the elementary school where I teach. So many students say they hate it that I started asking why. Their answers are almost always the same: Math is hard. Math ...

Steve Holifield’s breathing was labored. A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. His students had watched the ...

The words have lived in my mind for 37 years. It was 1986 and the professor of one of my upper-level journalism classes was handing back our papers – magazine articles we had written. On top, in red ...

The worldwide pandemic has threatened many of the businesses you rely on every day, but don’t let it take away your source for local news. Now more than ever, we need your help to ensure nothing but ...

How can we help a child with a kindled math alarm? How can we prevent this from happening in the first place? In his classic, The Myth of Laziness, Mel Levine made the critical point that when a young ...

If you were judging math by how Hollywood movies talk about it, you’d wonder why it even exists. Like Nazis and dogfighting, math is universally hated. Just look at this supercut of movies talking ...

In 1974, a geneticist named Marsha Jean Falco devised an ingenious research tool to help determine whether epilepsy in dogs was an inherited trait. She drew a series of symbols on index cards, where ...