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Designing a kitchen island is a lot like taking a refresher course in middle school math. You might start with a basic rectangle, then progress to more elaborate shapes, such as a pentagon or octagon.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X “Flilcker,” oil on wood panel, 2013. Credit: Don Voisine Those of you whose math careers peaked in ...

Back in 2019, Po-Shen Loh—an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University and national coach of the U.S. International Mathematics Olympiad—taught the world a new way of solving quadratic ...

Harvard might be America’s most elite university — but now it’s offering remedial math classes. The school’s math department is providing a new scaled-back math class for freshmen who are apparently ...

At Battle High School in Columbia, Mo., students in geometry class have swapped their compasses and protractors for hammers and hard hats. And they’re doing it for a good cause. The school is one of a ...