MadMath

Any article that has me yelling out loud while I read it must be a good one. Highly recommended for several reasons: http://www.psychologyto...

Oh, and I got to do this again today. Still amazed.

In my remedial algebra class, I assign these stupendously short homeworks, but require precisely written work -- professional format, one fu...

Let's say there's a lottery run once every month that costs $100 to enter. Chance of winning is 1 in 20,000. The prize is 5 million ...

The NBC comedy "Community" gets way more things right than they have to. For example: The sexpot statistics professor . But wait, ...

Did you know? Beilock, who studies how anxieties and stress can affect people's performance, noted that other research has indicated t...

Speaking of the "Math Wars", here's an observation I made about teaching the most basic elementary-school subjects. When I was...