If you’re the parent of an elementary school-age child, chances are good (OK, about one in ten, although actual numbers are hard to pin down) that you’ve encountered Everyday Math. Chances are ...

Close to Birds: An Intimate Look at Our Feathered Friends by Roine Magnusson, Mats Ottosson and Åsa Ottosson. Roost Books, 2019 ($39.95) In 2019 a disturbing report ran in Science that global bird ...

“I hate the Common Core,” the mother of two complained when I told her I write about education. “What, specifically, do you hate?” I asked. “The math. It makes no sense! I can’t help my kid with his ...

Mathematician, teacher and author Beveridge (Basic Maths for Dummies) does what he sets out to and shows that numbers can be fun and friendly in this entertaining book. Math lovers and the math-averse ...

The actress who played Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years, Danica McKellar, is a self-proclaimed math advocate for girls who might otherwise shy away from a subject that Barbie once famously described ...