Quick: What is the sum of the first five odd positive integers? If you stopped cold trying to remember what an integer is, you’d be no match for more than 80 sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders from ...

Math is all around us: the music you listen to, the vehicles you drive and even the food you bake can all be represented mathematically. But for most kids - and many adults - the word math evokes ...

Wall Street traders traditionally make decisions by following intuition and looking at the fundamentals of the market. But by the turn of the century, a group of math whizzes relied increasingly on ...

Dozens of area sixth- through eighth-graders voluntarily give up three or four evenings a week, including Friday, to go to school and work on math problems. Go figure. But it all adds up, really, when ...

If slamming a 90-mph fastball into the centerfield stands sounds tough, try scheduling a minor league baseball season. Here are some of the challenges: Did each team get the correct mix of home and ...