Students actively engage in tasks that are doable and interesting—which frees up time for personalized instruction.

KENT — When she was teaching middle school math, Tracy Drinkwater accompanied her students on field trips. She went on field trips with her own kids, too.

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Find the diameter D of the circle.

David Genter began designing math puzzles about 20 years ago, when he worked on diesel engines as an engineer. Genter's puzzles will be printed where space permits in the Daily Press every Tuesday ...

I’ve been out of school for decades, and I don’t spend my days solving equations (I’m more of a word person). Still, I like to think I have a solid grip on basic math: I can usually gauge whether a ...

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There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

Once upon a time, four queens known as the queens of blue, red, green and pink were locked in a bitter feud. The monarchs lived on four islands, all the same size, yet each with its own distinctive ...

Draw four lines beginning and ending at the gray points to break this square into pieces that can be rearranged into five identical squares. Bonus: Suppose you can use any number of lines that begin ...