J.T. Young asks an interesting question in “Do Sports Explain the ‘Math Gender Gap’?” op-ed, Sept. 8). One of my favorite ways to teach math to my children—my daughter and sons—is an activity we call ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sports trading cards can be used as teaching tools. Hyoung Chang/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images When it comes to ...

There are so many reports that cite problems in mathematics classrooms. One of the problems is related to motivation and student’s ability to apply what they learn. Several years ago, I was introduced ...

While mathematics is a fundamental skill crucial to daily life, U.S. parents today see math education as boring, outdated, and disconnected from the real world. (1) At the national level, short and ...

Former Baltimore Ravens lineman and math scholar John Urschel teaches a lesson at Dundalk High School to launch Texas Instruments’ STEM Behind Cool Careers series in Baltimore, in this Tuesday, July ...

An curved arrow pointing right. At Business Insider's 2015 IGNITION conference, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt told Business Insider CEO and Editor-in-Chief Henry Blodget that his math major and ...

I need some help. I didn’t learn what people call the “new math” and I’m wondering if I need it to grasp some of the decision making I’m now seeing in football. Allow me to give you an example from ...

Professor Michael Magazine is upending the logical world of math with a good dose of March Madness. Magazine teaches a new class called Bracketology at University of Cincinnati, the home of the ...

Sports are full of math. It is not just the score of the games but lots of other numbers and statistics. For example, batting averages and earned-run averages are math calculations that help baseball ...