Listeners contacted us to correct the answer to a clue from last week's puzzle, giving NPR's Ayesha Rascoe and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz a lesson in trigonometry. OK, so hold on, Will.

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. A high school ...

Roger Guffey if math insults conservative ideals the way some books do. PHOTO BY AL DIAZ [email protected] The cultural shift to the political right will have foreseeable consequences, but banning ...

In a new peer-reviewed study, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson outlined 10 ways to solve the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, including a proof they discovered in high school. When you ...

Mathematician Eugenia Cheng explores the uses of math beyond the classroom. Read more columns here. I recently needed to measure the angle of my computer keyboard, because I currently have it propped ...

It’s an eternal question for generations of math students: How am I going to use this in the real world? At Bates, Meredith Greer answers that question with an entire course, “Mathematics Across the ...