While snakes and ladders is purely a game of chance, there is a way to add some strategy, says mathematician Peter Rowlett ...

And the 'refuse to believe' part in this case is not that they actually don't believe it. It's more that the fact is so outlandish or ridiculous that it just blows their mind.

Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

Each day, Times Insider editors scour the newspaper for the most interesting facts to appear on our pages. This year, tidbits about plastic recycling, whale sharks and crab Rangoon enlightened and ...

A map can take you on a journey, transporting you across continents and cultures all with a single glance. What started as a simple map drawing on a clay tablet centuries ago in Babylon has slowly ...

You know that moment when you’re minding your own business… and a squirrel launches itself across two branches like it’s auditioning for Mission: Impossible? Yeah. Same. Squirrels are basically fluffy ...

Cars have changed the world, and there are so many interesting things about the companies who make them that it sometimes becomes hard to keep track. Like how a lawsuit spearheaded by the Dodge ...

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When Mike Kenny was a fifth-grade teacher in Essex Junction, he learned early in his career that the traditional way to teach math, which includes repetitive practice of math problems, did not work ...

As TriMet prepares to implement service cuts on Nov. 30, one rider has already proved that longer wait times won’t stop a determined transit superfan. Marty Valentine, pictured on TriMet MAX Blue Line ...

Roland Hosch is into math. And robotics. And computers. The fifth-grade teacher at Redlands’ Kimberly Elementary School has blended it all together in his math classes. And the result has won him ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The Los Angeles Dodgers are back in the World Series and looking to make history. Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and the rest of the Boys in Blue are facing the ...