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

Recreational math may sound like an oxymoron, but it is David Nacin’s guiding principle. Nacin is a former college deejay, yoga devotee and a 14-year mathematics professor at William Paterson ...

Professor Merle White of the mathematics department, Professor Leslie Black of philosophy and Jean Brown, a young stenographer who worked in the university’s office of admissions, were lunching ...

Math is not everyone’s favorite, understandably. Hours of math homework and difficult equations can make anyone sour on the subject. But when math problems are outside of a school setting, there’s no ...

Brain teasers have always fascinated people, challenging their logical thinking and problem-solving abilities. Among the most popular are maths-based puzzles, which often spark debates over the ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Mathematics is a“science which requires a great amount of imagination”, said the 19th-century Russian maths professor Sofya Kovalevskaya – a pioneering figure for women's ...

Two professors, one of English and one of mathematics, were having drinks in the faculty club bar. “It is curious,” said the English professor, “how some poets can write one immortal line and nothing ...