I’ll bet you don’t think about math when you see a pumpkin. It’s not our first reaction. Now that it’s fall — yes, we’re calling it, and pumpkins are everywhere — it’s time to think beyond the stringy ...

Mark Harris loads a pumpkin onto a catapult (trebuchet) Saturday at Washington State College of Ohio in Marietta during the second annual Pumpkin Chuckin’ event. Organizers wanted to show off aspects ...

ACROSS AMERICA — There’s a contest for everything, and pumpkins are no exception. You may be rightfully proud of that enormous pumpkin in your patch, but unless it weighs upward of 2,500 pounds, ...

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP – Some fourth-grade students at the Joyanne D. Miller School dug enjoyed a fun math lesson on estimation Halloween day using pumpkins. Teachers Kevin Conley and Donna Munyon ...

When you think about a pumpkin, usually a jack-o'-lantern or pumpkin pie comes to mind. However, at Hometown Elementary, kindergarten and first-grade students got to combine learning with fun in a ...

First-graders being educated under the common core curriculum often learn in innovative ways to think, communicate, and solve problems. How would you estimate and measure the circumference of a ...

CHAGRIN FALLS During a special Halloween lesson, Gurney Elementary School students learned pumpkins serve more than mere aesthetic purposes. Members of the Delta Zeta Gamma Kappa sorority from Kent ...

The first-grade students at Chatterton Elementary School in Merrick performed some experiments on pumpkins during class Tuesday. The young scientists measured the lines in a pumpkin, its density, ...

FLORENCE -- In the process of learning that the world’s largest pumpkin on record is 1,725 pounds, Abby Thompson and Alyssa Stewart have sharpened their math skills as well.